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because the slaves in the cotton fields of The delta region, in Mississippi wanted to relieve some of their pain. They began to sing call and response songs, called field hollers and basically the blues transformed from there.

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The history of blues dated a short while after the Emancipation Act, which was an era of post slavery and sharecropping. The blues were played in the places that African American people went to drink, dance, gamble, and wind down after a hard days work.

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The blues started in fields during cotton plantations and people sang while they worked and they music would spread. The Blues influenced Jazz Music.

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Blues as we know it came about in 1911.

"The blues is an expression of anger against shame and humiliation" a quote from B.B. King.

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