Publisher's Synopsis
"Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration is a book adaptation of the groundbreaking exhibition at the Historic New Orleans Collection which ran from July 2024 to February 2025. The book presents a chronological narrative, beginning with the founding of Louisiana, explaining how, over the course of more than 300 years, the state has come to be recognized as the incarceration capital of the world. The book augments this narrative by highlighting some of the exhibition's key objects, data visualizations, and profiles of Louisianians impacted by the interrelated systems of slavery and incarceration over the course of the state's history. More than a memoir of the exhibition, the book will serve as a source document that can be used by advocates, reformers, and educators alike"-- Provided by publisher.
