2.4: The End of Congo Square

<p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>LEARN MORE:</p><p><em>Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans</em> by Freddi Williams Evans</p><p><em>Congo Square in New Orleans</em> by Jerah Johnson</p><p>“A Window on Slave Culture: Dances at Congo Square in New Orleans, 1800-1862” by Gary A. Donaldson</p><p><em>The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square</em> by Ned Sublette</p><p><em>City of a Million Dreams: New Orleans at 300</em> by Jason Berry</p><p><em>The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans</em> by Lawrence N. Powell</p><p>“African Cultural Memory in New Orleans Music” by Jason Berry</p><p>“Deep Skin: Reconstructing Congo Square” by Joseph R. Roach</p><p>“New Orleans Music as a Circulatory System” by Matt Sakakeeny</p><p>“The Invention of a Memory: Congo Square and African Music in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans” by Ted Widmer</p><p><em>Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War</em> by Dena J. Epstein</p><p>https://antigravitymagazine.com/feature/sacred-ground/</p><p>https://chrisdier.com/2015/03/10/raquette-the-lost-sport-of-new-orleans/</p><p><br></p><p>SOUNDS:</p><p>French Quarter Bourbon walk.wav by volivieri --https://freesound.org/s/110012/ -- License: Attribution 4.0</p>