Living and Playing the Blues on Dockery Plantation-Farms

This history of the Dockery Plantation-Farms encompasses from the 1890s through this very day. Thousands of black laborers and their families, until mechanization, defined the National Register of Historic Places site. Did the plantation witness the "birth of the blues?" Who besides Charley Patton was involved? Under what conditions did the place become an economic juggernaut and a site for blues music?

Author: James W. Swinnich
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: 02/10/2021
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d
ISBN13: 9781977232830
ISBN10: 1977232833
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 20th Century
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,

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