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How did the Blues evolve from the early styles of slave music making we have already studied?

WC Handy spent several years in the Mississippi Delta region studying early Blues. He did nothing to continue it’s development, or create it, however. Handy’s self proclaimed title of “Father of the Blues” has more to do with how he popularized the Blues. Handy is a popular bandleader in the early 1900’s - what do you think happened?

What made the Mississippi Delta region a hot bed for Blues development in the late 1800’s/early 1900’s?

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Answer:Americans of African descent include many cultural and regional groups, including early settlers and immigrants from the Caribbean, immigrants from other parts of the Americas, and recent immigrants from African countries. But most African Americans are descendants of Africans who were forcibly brought to America through the slave trade. Early in the colonial era some were treated as indentured servants and freed after a period of time, resulting in a population of free African Americans even in the colonial era, particularly in the Chesapeake Bay region. There was also a significant population of free Blacks in Florida when it became a territory of the United States in 1822, mainly consisting of settlers from the Bahamas, runaway slaves from the Southern United States, and their descendants (see the related article "Bahamian American Song"). In what is now Louisiana, African Americans were brought as slaves during the French and Spanish colonial period or brought in by settlers after the Louisiana Purchase. In later periods free Blacks also emigrated from French speaking areas of the Caribbean. This mix developed into a group of people identified today as "Louisiana Creoles." For more on this topic see the article "French American Song."

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