2.4: The End of Congo Square

New Orleans becomes hostile to Congo Square. The African dances are banned. The space falls into disrepair, then becomes a whites-only park. Against all odds, it fights for its original identity.LEARN MORE:Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans by Freddi Williams EvansCongo Square in New Orleans by Jerah Johnson“A Window on Slave Culture: Dances at Congo Square in New Orleans, 1800-1862” by Gary A. DonaldsonThe World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned SubletteCity of a Million Dreams: New Orleans at 300 by Jason BerryThe Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell“African Cultural Memory in New Orleans Music” by Jason Berry“Deep Skin: Reconstructing Congo Square” by Joseph R. Roach“New Orleans Music as a Circulatory System” by Matt Sakakeeny“The Invention of a Memory: Congo Square and African Music in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans” by Ted WidmerSinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War by Dena J. Epsteinhttps://antigravitymagazine.com/feature/sacred-ground/https://chrisdier.com/2015/03/10/raquette-the-lost-sport-of-new-orleans/SOUNDS:French Quarter Bourbon walk.wav by volivieri --https://freesound.org/s/110012/ -- License: Attribution 4.0