Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans

by Freddi Williams Evans

Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans comprises the first comprehensive study of one of the New World's most sacred sites of African American memory and community. Beginning in the eighteenth century, enslaved Africans and free people of color gathered in Congo Square on Sunday afternoons discontinuously for well over one hundred years. This book presents accounts and descriptions of the songs, dances, musical instruments, religious beliefs,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935754033
• ISBN13: 9781935754039
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Louisiana
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.0"