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Freedom in Congo Square

written by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie

40 pages · 2016

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Six days a week, slaves labor from sunup to sundown and beyond, but on Sunday afternoons, they gather with free blacks at Congo Square outside New Orleans, free from oppression. Includes foreword about Congo Square by Freddi Williams Evans, glossary, and historical notes.

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