Since the Mississippi Delta was the last area of ... what they owed from any earnings made in the field. Since the plantation owners kept track of the calculations, rarely would sharecroppers ...

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.

Norcom had migrated from North Carolina to Mississippi. He writes to Johnston, a North Carolina plantation owner, telling him of the wealth to be made by speculating in land newly acquired from ...