@third_son803: Fun Black History Fact: Did you know that following the Civil War in 1869, a New York World newspaper correspondent documented Black Americans still performing their ancestral Congolese 'Bamboula' dance at Congo Square in New Orleans, writing: "A dry-goods box and an old pork barrel formed the orchestra. These were beaten with sticks or bones, used like drumsticks so as to keep up a continuous rattle while some old men and women chanted a song that appeared to me to be purely African in its many vowelled syllabification. In the dance, the women did not move their feet from the ground. They only writhed their bodies and swaved in undulatory motions from ankles to waist. The men leaped and performed feats of gymnastic dancing. Small bells were attached to their ankles....Owing to the noise, I could not even attempt to catch the words of the song. I asked several old women to recite them to me, but they only laughed and shook their heads. In their patois they told me: "No use, you could never understand it. C'est le Congo!" 🇨🇩 #foryoupage #BlackTikTok #africanamericanhistory #neworleans #xyzbca
