45 POINTS TO WHO EVER CAN DO THIS How did the Blues evolve from the early styles of slave music making we have already studied?

WC Handy spent several years in the Mississippi Delta region studying early Blues. He did nothing to continue it’s development, or create it, however. Handy’s self proclaimed title of “Father of the Blues” has more to do with how he popularized the Blues. Handy is a popular bandleader in the early 1900’s - what do you think happened?

What made the Mississippi Delta region a hot bed for Blues development in the late 1800’s/early 1900’s?