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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2016
      November 2016
      ISBN:
      9781316460054
      9781107133716
      9781107591165
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316460054
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 260 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 260 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, American Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, African History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, American Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, African History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
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    New Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major American metropolis as its slave population exploded; in the early nineteenth century, slaves made up one third of the urban population. In contrast to our typical understanding of rural, localized, isolated bondage in the emergent Deep South, daily experiences of slavery in New Orleans were global, interconnected, and transient. Slavery's Metropolis uses slave circulations through New Orleans between 1791 and 1825 to map the social and cultural history of enslaved men and women and the rapidly shifting city, nation, and world in which they lived. Investigating emigration from the Caribbean to Louisiana during the Haitian Revolution, commodity flows across urban-rural divides, multiracial amusement places, the local jail, and freedom-seeking migrations to Trinidad following the War of 1812, it remaps the history of slavery in modern urban society.

    Awards

    Winner, 2016 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, The Historical New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association

    Honourable mention, 2016 Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book (North American), Urban History Association

    Finalist, 2016 Book Award, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians

    Winner, 2018 H. L. Mitchell Award, Southern Historical Association

    Reviews

    'Via the Atlantic slave trade or the Haitian Revolution, Slavery’s Metropolis offers a compelling narrative regarding the relocation of people of African descent to New Orleans. Johnson’s impressive research reminds her readers that although black men, women, and children occasionally found windows to escape, their journey to New Orleans typically represented the end of freedom. This is a timely and important contribution to the fields of early African American and urban history.'

    Erica Armstrong Dunbar - University of Delaware

    'Slavery’s Metropolis is an extraordinary work, full of intellectual insights and archival discoveries. Professor Johnson has linked sources and read against the grain to reveal a picture of enslaved people’s lives that will in turn change how we understand the elusive concept 'Atlantic World.' And it’s a good read.'

    Edward E. Baptist - Cornell University, New York

    'In this marvelous book, Rashauna Johnson talks back to a whitewashed history of New Orleans. She strips back layers to reveal how slaves made the city in a revolutionary era, how they were simultaneously set in motion and confined. Slavery's Metropolis will be relished by students of slavery and urban life in the United States and the broader Atlantic World.'

    Adam Rothman - Georgetown University, Washington DC

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    Contents
    • Introduction
      pp 1-23
    • Slave Spaces
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