Place des Nègres: Liberation at Congo Square

The area now known as Congo Square, located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, emerged as an important public activity locale during the early decades of the French colonial period. Beginning around the middle of the eighteenth century, the Place des Nègres, as it was first known, became a market area where African slaves could sell their wares on “free days.” Though legally slaves were forbidden from owning any kind of property, gathering in large groups, or conducting trade on their own, slave masters and colonial authorities usually did not interfere with the market. For more info, click HERE

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"Now Could we go to the square they call Congo I need to go and lay my feet upon the stone Where the first of us stood before, before, before Where we sat and played to revive our depleted souls Where we went to forget our freedom was not our own Where we went to hold onto the memory of way back home" --Amel Larrieux