In NOLA.com Guest Column, HNOC Historian Discusses “Captive State” As Public History Project

“Captive State is a groundbreaking public history project. It’s the first public-facing project to present a three-century historical synthesis of incarceration in New Orleans and Louisiana with a focus on the connections between systems of slavery and mass incarceration . . . For many, the stories and information presented in the exhibition were new; for others the exhibition represented a public telling of privately known truths.”