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By James C. Cobb

"Cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed," Rupert Vance known as it in 1935. "Nowhere yet within the Mississippi Delta," he stated, "are antebellum stipulations so approximately preserved." This crescent of bottomlands among Memphis and Vicksburg, covered via the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers, is still in many ways what it used to be in 1860: a land of wealthy soil, prosperous planters, and determined poverty--the blackest and poorest counties in the entire South. And but it's a cultural treasure residence as well--the domestic of Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Charley delight, Walker Percy, Elizabeth Spencer, and Shelby Foote. portray a desirable portrait of the advance and survival of the Mississippi Delta, a society and financial system that's frequently noticeable because the so much severe in all of the South, James C. Cobb bargains a finished heritage of the Delta, from its first white cost within the 1820s to the current. Exploring the wealthy black tradition of the Delta, Cobb explains the way it survived and developed in the middle of poverty and oppression, starting with the 1st settlers within the overgrown, disease-ridden Delta prior to the Civil conflict to the sour battles and incomplete triumphs of the civil rights era.
during this entire account, Cobb bargains new perception into "the so much southern position on earth," untangling the enigma of grindingly terrible yet prolifically artistic Mississippi Delta.

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