Slavery and the Blues Culture
Slavery can broadly be described as the ownership, buying and selling of human beings for the purpose of forced and unpaid labour.
Slavery is one of the things that everyone agrees is unethical. In fact there is such general agreement that most people would probably say that 'slavery is wrong just because it's wrong'.
Even those who practice slavery don't usually try to defend it - they make excuses or attempt to avoid being caught; which suggests that they know that they are doing wrong.
Slaves had to do house and field work. Slaves were moves across the ocean from Africa by ship through the slave triangle, where most would be taken to either America or Great Britain,
Little is known about the exact origin of the music now known as the blues. No specific year can be cited as the origin of the blues, largely because the style evolved over a long period and existed in approaching its modern form before the term blues was introduced and before the style was thoroughly documented. Ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik traces the roots of many of the elements that were to develop into the blues back to the African continent, the "cradle of the blues".  One important early mention of something closely resembling the blues comes from 1901, when an archaeologist in Mississippi described the songs of black workers which had lyrical themes and technical elements in common with the blues. They tell of injustice and hopelessness, and the longing for a better life.
When it comes to melody, blues music also consists of an emphasis on the flattened third, fifth and seventh notes of a major scale. These notes are traditionally played in a blues scale. The rhythm is also a unique characteristic of blues music. The rhythm is based on the 12-bar and 48-beat repetitive pattern.
B.B King, Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton were 3 famous Blues performers.
Hoochie Choochie Man by Muddy Waters
The Thrill is Gone by B.B King
Me and The Devil Blues by Robert Johnson were all famous blues songs.