Blues assignment

By tasiakeen

  • Slavery

    Slavery started in what is now the United States in 1619. In that year, a load of slaves was dropped off in Jamestown, the first settlement in what is now the United States

  • The end of slave importaton

    Congree legislates an end to bringing slaves into the states.

  • Minstrel show

    The minstrel show, with it's black preformers, crude racial caricatures, and the song "jump jim crow" becomes apart of the american culture.

  • Civil War Ends

    The civil war ends bringing an end to slavery

  • slave songs

    African American spirituals are published

  • Jim Crow

    Southern states move to the "Jim Crow" system of segregation, passing laws to exclude African Americans from their everyday life. Radical violence and lynchings increase.

  • Blus song

    The first blues song, included W.C. Handy's "Mephis Blues", arepublished as sheet music.