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Close ✕Congo Square, New Orleans
An open ground on the far side of Rampart Street from the French Quarter, in what is now Louis Armstrong Park in the Tremé, where enslaved and free people of African descent gathered on…
30.0, -90.1 · approximate · gatherings before 1800; confined here by decree in 1817; largely ended by the 1860s
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- located in New Orleans — The square lies beyond Rampart Street in the Tremé, within what is now Louis Armstrong Park.
- evidence for The West African drum ensemble — Contemporary descriptions of the Sunday gatherings name the drums, the dances and the bamboula pattern, and are the strongest North American attestation that African ensemble practice was still being performed publicly into the nineteenth century.
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