Captive city : meditations on slavery in the urban south /
Captive City explores the paths of slavery in coastal cities, arguing that captivity haunts the 'hospitality' cultures of Charleston, New Orleans, Savannah and Baltimore. It is not a history of urban slavery, but a literary reflection that argues for coastal cities as a distinct region tha...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2025].
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Table of Contents:
- Note. The word the slaves made
- Introduction. Always moving : the captive flâneur in light and water
- Interlude. The four exceptionalisms
- "Inside views" of New Orleans and Baltimore : gender and genre in the urban slave narrative
- Interlude. Temporary housing
- What's old about neoliberalism? New York, New Orleans, and the history of an absence
- Interlude. A beautiful woman with a dirty face
- "A stranger to this city" : Charleston and the cosmopolitan fugitive
- Interlude. In slavery's closet
- Coda. Movements for land and water.