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American Slavery Invented Rock & Roll - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 11-21-2008

Flumper's History Lesson #72:

American Slavery Credited for Inventing Rock & Roll Music

As early American's began to move into many new regions of the United States, they found vast amounts of rich farmland. Demand at the time for world wide cotton production was extremely high, and these rich black soils, the moderate climate, and the ample rainfall were ideal for large quantities of cotton production. Unfortunately, at that time farming equipment had not developed and most of the cotton farming had to be done with manual labor.

With a tremendous shortage of manual labor, these farmers sought outside labor and relied on slave traders to provide the workers to meet the demand of the cotton market. After years of indentured servitude and meager conditions, these slaves figured out that their lives really sucked the big one and there wasn't anything they could do about it.

In an effort to endure the long days and brutal working conditions, they developed work songs. Most of these songs were sad and repetitious, much like their working environment. As these songs grew in popularity in the cotton fields, they became a new form of music played on crude, often handmade instruments. Because of the sad and desperate tone, this new sound became known as the "blues".

Years later, after slavery had been abolished and a new generation of white Americans began to prosper, they gradually came into contact with this mostly unknown form of music. A few of the white Americans began to learn to play the blues on their more modern musical instruments.

Finally, when they had mastered the sound and style of that black music, they gave the y0u know whats the finger and changed the name to "rock and roll" and made millions. And that folks, is how slavery invented rock and roll. For those of you that love rock & roll, "god bless slavery".

THE END

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American Slavery Invented Rock & Roll - Dagger - 11-21-2008

37. Blacks created rock and roll.

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American Slavery Invented Rock & Roll - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 11-21-2008

Dagger Wrote:37. American slave owners created rock and roll.

There.

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American Slavery Invented Rock & Roll - who - 11-21-2008

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American Slavery Invented Rock & Roll - who - 11-21-2008

http://www.bbc.co.uk/later/artists/carolinachocolatedrops/

Carolina Chocolate drops are a trio of African-American stringband musicians continuing the old-time music heritage from the foothills of North and South Carolina. Banjo, fiddle and jug are the instruments of choice and new CD Heritage is an absolute gem.

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