Read what THNOC reads! Join us as we read and discuss books related to the history of New Orleans. Participate in virtual book discussions with staff, authors, and fellow readers!
The Fine Print Book Club is an informal learning program intended to promote dialogue and connections within our community through shared reading. Participation in the FPBC is free, but participants are expected to obtain their own copy of each title, and registration is required. Sessions will be conducted on Zoom.
January 27, 2021 7:00PM
The Fine Print Book Club presents Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans During the Age of Revolutions
by Rashauna Johnson
In the early 19th century, slaves made up one-third of the New Orleans population. In contrast to the typical conception of rural plantation slavery in the emergent Deep South, daily experiences of slavery in New Orleans were global, interconnected, and transient, a function of New Orleans’s location at the crossroads of Early America and the Atlantic World. Slavery’s Metropolis uses slave circulations between 1791 and 1825 to map the sociocultural history of enslaved people in New Orleans, using the concepts of space and place as a lens for discussion. Johnson is a previous winner of THNOC’s Williams Prize, and currently teaches at Dartmouth College. Time listed is in Central Time Zone.
Please email BookClub@hnoc.org for more information on the Fine Print Book Club.
St. James Cheese Company has curated a signature THNOC cheese and wine box option for all registrants for The Fine Print Book Club. For the January box, click here.
