Freedom in Congo Square
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Dreamscape Media 2017
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As slaves relentlessly toiled in an unjust system in 19th century Louisiana, they all counted down the days until Sunday, when, at least for half a day, they were briefly able to congregate in Congo Square in New Orleans. There, they were free to set up an open market, sing, dance, and play music. They were free to forget their cares, their struggles, and their oppression. This poetic, nonfiction story about this little-known piece of African American history chronicles the daily duties of such slaves-from chopping logs on Mondays to baking bread on Wednesdays to plucking hens on Saturday-and builds to the freedom of Sundays and the special experience of an afternoon spent in Congo Square, capturing humanity's capacity to find hope and joy even in the most difficult of circumstances and demonstrating how New Orleans' Congo Square was truly freedom's heart.
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OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
07/25/2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781666591873
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LG
Level 5.4, 0.5 Points
Level 5.4, 0.5 Points
Lexile code:
AD: Adult Directed
Lexile measure:
600
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Carole Boston Weatherford. (2017). Freedom in Congo Square. Unabridged Dreamscape Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Carole Boston Weatherford. 2017. Freedom in Congo Square. Dreamscape Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Carole Boston Weatherford, Freedom in Congo Square. Dreamscape Media, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Carole Boston Weatherford. Freedom in Congo Square. Unabridged Dreamscape Media, 2017.
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Located in what is now the Treme neighborhood, Congo Square was the one place where the slaves and free blacks of New Orleans were allowed to gather on Sundays, a legally mandated day of rest. There they could reconnect with the dance and music of their West and Central African heritages and feel, at least for a few hours, that they were in “a world apart,” where “freedom’s heart” prevailed. Weatherford hits a few flat notes with her rhyming (“Slaves had off one afternoon,/ when the law allowed them to commune”), but she succeeds in evoking a world where prospect of Sunday becomes a way to withstand relentless toil and oppression: “Wednesday, there were beds to make/ silver to shine, and bread to bake./ The dreaded lash, too much to bear./ Four more days to Congo Square.” Christie, who worked with Weatherford to illuminate another historic neighborhood in Sugar Hill (2014), takes readers on a visual journey, moving from searing naïf scenes of plantation life to exuberantly expressionistic and abstract images filled with joyous, soaring curvilinear figures. An introduction and afterword provide further historic detail. Ages 4–8.
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