The Delta plantation system started in the 19th ... the backbreaking work of clearing the wild forest and subduing the Mississippi River with levees. As a result of the slaves' labor, the Delta ...

The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly to the work songs and field hollers of slaves on Southern plantations. The slaves brought the musical traditions of their ...

The Mississippi Delta is a region of rich, fertile soil, renowned for its contributions to civil rights activism, blues, art, and storytelling. Home to both the plantation economy and the civil ...

The Bird's Foot Delta, a crucial ecological and economic hub, faces an uncertain future amid rising seas and dwindling sediment.

was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly poverty stricken and the plantation owners kept their workers in harsh conditions.

SUMMARY. — Laura McRaven, nine, arrives at Shellmound, plantation home of her dead mother’s brother, Battle Fairchild, in the Mississippi Delta, during the late summer of 1923. The family ...