![]() ![]() Then on Sunday, they greet one another and dance with expressively charged spirits. ![]() His elongated figures toil in fields and in houses with bent backs under the watchful eyes of overseers with whips. ![]() Christie’s full-bleed paintings are a moving accompaniment. The poetry is powerful and evocative, providing a strong and emotional window into the world of the slave. They also exchanged information and sold wares. Musicians “drummed ancestral roots alive” on different traditional instruments, and men and women danced. In rhyming couplets, Weatherford vividly describes each day of nonstop work under a “dreaded lash” until Sunday, when slaves and free blacks could assemble in Congo Square, now a part of New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong Park and on the National Register of Historic Places. Count down the days until Sunday, a day for slaves in New Orleans to gather together and remember their African heritage. ![]()
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