The institution of sharecropping prevailed and the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow laws were formidable constraints. In 1911, slavery in the Mississippi Delta was long gone but the vestiges lived on.
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Eventually, the enslaved and later free African Americans attended church where these songs found a natural place and, By the 1870s, they were recognized as the “Negro Spiritual” and about 30 years later, the blues. The enslaved workers used these songs as a form of distraction and resistance, the words passing important information across the fields, unbeknownst to the slaveholders. One of their resources for survival were a confluence of songs rooted in their various African cultures, sung in the fields in unified voices, call-and-response interactions, and individual hollers. There, on cotton plantations, enslaved laborers struggled under remarkably hostile conditions. The roots of the blues began in the Mississippi Delta – an area that extends from Vicksburg Mississippi to Memphis Tennessee. Let’s start with the blues – a uniquely American form of music that reflects personal longing and historic strife. The history of the blues, Robert Johnson, and the tamale are fascinating and interlocked. The Blues, Robert Johnson and the Hot Tamale Connection You didn’t sell your soul to the devil as some people say…but you did give a great deal of it to us.
Here is a blog I wrote about Robert Johnson last year – HAPPY BIRTHDAY Robert Johnson. We even see his influence in the candy universe in such items as the Hot Tamale candy, which runs from ancient Aztec women to Mexican immigrants working in agriculture to enslaved workers in the Delta to Robert Johnson to a Jewish immigrant in Pennsylvania to the Peeps candy and, at last, to the Hot Tamale candy we eat today. The influence of just about any cultural effort affects so much in our culture, and Johnson’s influence on our cultural history and American music is profound. Today is the birthday of Robert Johnson – the remarkable and legendary blues musician – born in 1911.
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