[3] She eventually taught at Tulane University's history department, interdisciplinary studies institute, and law school.
[4] Her first book, on slavery-related cases brought to the Louisiana Supreme Court in the antebellum era, won the Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association.
[1] Schafer reported that the Louisiana Supreme Court was unique amongst the states: "One of the hardest things that Gov.
"[6] Hurricane Katrina threatened the archival materials she used for her research but luckily "the library had been built as a bomb shelter during the cold war, and it didn't flood.
[2] She was remembered as a "prolific, thorough, and imaginative scholar, with a keen eye for the telling detail and a fine way with words.