![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz, the incubator of the blues, the nurturer of gospel music, the crucible of a dynamic brand of English, and a treasure chest of gastronomical delights.īut those cultural miracles were breech-birthed by slavery, genocide, war, Jim Crow segregation, urban neglect, and crimeright on up to the national shame, horror and governmental treason that was Katrina. For centuries Africans, West Indians, Cubans, Haitians, Creoles, native tribes and European-Americansand othershave forged a unique and enduring cultural gumbo there. It is an African-American Atlantis, New Orleans: a crescent-shaped city six-feet under water at the mouth of the mighty Mississippi river. Gumbo Nation: The World That Made New Orleans - From Spanish Silver To Congo Square ![]()
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