Freedom in Congo Square (Hardcover)

from LeslieMuir

Freedom In Congo Square is about the week in the life of a plantation slave in the American south leading up to Sunday when they can congregate freely to play music and socialize in Congo Square, New Orleans. This book is about a true place and the represented lives that actually worked on the ne...

from AlbertPascal

This vibrantly illustrated book is a story of slavery, oppression, music and hope. Poetically written, the lines count the days until Sunday when the enslaved plantation workers can go to Congo Square to taste a small piece of freedom. They trade news, wares, crops, and they sing and dance. This ...

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This story my have the sad truth about slavery in it but it also includes

from pataustin

In lyrical couplets and dramatic images, author and illustrator paint the picture of the hardworking and cruel life for enslaved people in New Orleans, where each day of the week, they counted down the days to Congo Square. "Wednesdays, there were beds to make, silver to shine, and bread to bake,...

from Whisper1

Located at the Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans, rich in history, this is a story of Congo Square, in slave time, this was a place of luxury, a place and time where the slave can let the music take him o r her wherever they dreamed. In Congo Park one could be free from rank and cruelty. Unique...