The cradle of jazz - New Orleans!
From Congo Square to Swing: The birth of jazz in New Orleans. Jazz grew in many places – but it was born in New Orleans New Orleans, founded in 1718 by French colonial rulers, became a hub of the transatlantic slave trade just a year later. People from West Africa were forcibly taken to the colonies – to South America, the Caribbean, and also to Louisiana, which remained under French control until 1803. The city quickly developed into a melting pot of cultures: Creoles, enslaved and free...
