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Slaves In America
Slavery in AmericaAfrican Americans come to Virginia (United states) for the first time, to be used in slavery. -
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Free The Slaves
Aberham Lincoln starts working to free the slaves, issuing the Emanciation Proclamation. -
Slavery Ends
The day the Amendments were officialized, slavery was ended and banned. -
Slave Songs Are Published
A collection of 136 insperationalsongs were released. They were named slave songs because they are about slavery. These were the earliest African American spirituals to be realesed. -
Bluesman is discovered
W.C. Handy, a musician, see's and hears a Bluesman at a Mississippi train station, playing guitar with a knife. -
Blues Music Is Published
The first Blues songs are recorded and published as sheet music. This includes W.C. Handy's 'Memphisis Blues'. -
Crazy Blues
Mamie Smith and The Birth of The Blues MarketMamie Smith records music for Okeh Records and Crazy blues becomes the first hit blues song. This begins the business of 'Race" recording. -
Folk/Blues Recording
The first male Folk Blues music is recorded. Folk becomes a big style of music as well. -
Electric Guitar
Genius In The ShadowsSoon after The Great Depression, Eddie Durham records music featuring the electric guitar, for the first time. This instrument forever changes the sound of bllues music. -
T-Bone Walker
Artist and musican, T-Bone walker, plays the electric guitar when recording his song, "Call It Stormy Monday". -
Rhythm and Blues
Jerry Wexler, editor of Billboard Magazine changes the older name "race" records to 'Rhythm and Blues.' -
The Freedom Summer
Civil Rights Campains work to allow blacks to vote, which brings young white peoeple to the south. -
White Audienece
Muddy Waters and B.B. King perform to a mostly white audience at a concert venue in New York. -
Year of The Blues
Congress officially declares that 2003 is the "year of the blues" and also the anniversary of when W.C. Handy found the Bluesman at the train station in Mississippi. -
Piano Blues
A documentary is released, called Piano Blues. It is produced by Martin Scorsese. The documentary is all about musci, piano and blues.
