  In this paper we propose an effective description of the transition to
deconfinement in the vicinity of a black hole. For this we adapt the approach
that uses the dual quark condensate as order parameter for confinement,
originally introduced in the context of lattice QCD, to a strongly interacting
fermion effective field theory propagating on a curved background. We construct
numerically the dual condensate and determine approximately the region of the
deconfined phase. The present analysis suggests that quarks will be radiated
directly by Hawking emission, while hadrons will form at the boundary of the
deconfined region by "standard" nonperturbative QCD effects. This example
provides a nontrivial setup to discuss how gravity affects confinement.
