Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans duck decoys Michele Valerie Ronnick

Michele Valerie Ronnick

Denham  Springs

Thibodeaux brings writerly flair and deft narrative to these largely untold stories of a resilient folk whose very way of life is under siege

In this second installment of The Adventures of L’il Red and Hopewell Green series

Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans duck decoys Michele Valerie RonnickAfrican Roots in New Orleans by Freddi Williams Evans; Foreword by J. H. Kwabena 'Nketia, Ph. D. Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans comprises the first comprehensive study of one of the New Worlds most sacred sites of African American memory and community. Beginning in the eighteenth century, enslaved Africans and free people of color gathered in Congo Square on Sunday afternoons discontinuously for well over one hundred years. This book