New Orleans confines Sunday gatherings to Congo Square

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2. Fourteen years after the Louisiana Purchase, the city restricts the Sunday gatherings of enslaved and free people of African descent to a single plot of ground beyond Rampart Street. The measure is a restriction, and its effect on this Journey is the opposite of the South Carolina drum ban: by licensing the gatherings in one place rather than prohibiting them, it kept African ensemble drumming publicly audible in a North American city for another two generations. Observers of the following decades describe crowds in the hundreds and name the bamboula among the dances.
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4. The West African drum ensemble
5. Colonial prohibition of drumming
6. Congo Square, New Orleans
7. New Orleans
8. New Orleans confines Sunday gatherings to Congo Square
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10. Congo Square, New Orleans
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12. The West African drum ensemble
13. Colonial prohibition of drumming
14. The West African drum ensemble
15. New Orleans
16. New Orleans confines Sunday gatherings to Congo Square
17. The Middle Passage
18. Congo Square, New Orleans
19. Jazz
20. Havana
21. New Orleans confines Sunday gatherings to Congo Square
22. The first jazz record is made
23. Alan Lomax records Jelly Roll Morton at the Library of Congress
24. Colonial prohibition of drumming
25. West Africa
26. Congo Square, New Orleans
27. The Stono Rebellion
28. The South Carolina Negro Act prohibits drums
29. New Orleans confines Sunday gatherings to Congo Square
30. The West African drum ensemble
31. The Stono Rebellion
32. Blues
33. The Stono Rebellion
34. The South Carolina Negro Act prohibits drums
35. New Orleans confines Sunday gatherings to Congo Square
36. Evidence
37. Enslaved and free people of African descent gathered on Sundays at the ground beyond Rampart Street to drum, dance, sing and trade; an 1817 municipal measure confined such gatherings to that plot; observers describe the bamboula and a pattern counted as three plus three plus two, and crowds of several hundred by 1819. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary across several public-history accounts; none was opened, and the 1817 measure is described in them variously as an ordinance and as a mayoral decree.