"Congo Square, Looking Toward End of Basin St."

ID: 5109 ~ Source: Image courtesy of The William Russell Jazz Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection, acquisition made possible by the Clarisse Claiborne Grima Fund, 92-48-L.331.112. ~ Date: June 17, 1942.

This file appears in: Congo Square: Mythology and Music

This file appears in: Congo Square: Mythology and Music

Congo Square: Mythology and Music

By Adam Majewski & Kate Mason

For many Congo Square is the site that inspires the most fantastical images of enslaved life in New Orleans. From the 1840s to the 1880s, intellectuals and artists like George Washington Cable, Louis…