Along the Mississippi: Cotton Fields & Blues (Part 2 - Full Documentary) | TRACKS

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  • This is the second episode of the documentary series "Along the Mississippi," which takes viewers on a journey from the deep south to the north following North America’s mightiest river.
    In this episode, we'll revisit the darker parts of US history, namely the times of slavery used by the large plantations in the southern states. This episode also takes us back to the origins of blues music and the stories that surround this particular American musical genre.
    This is a journey which takes us to the very soul of the country, capturing its rich spirit by re-discovering the Mississippi as a source of American history, culture, music and lifestyle.
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  • @karenhargis3422
    @karenhargis3422 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I am mesmerized with the south and it’s richness

  • @suzystone244
    @suzystone244 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Human beings need more of these things.
    Slow down.
    Smell the air.
    Savor the food.
    Share your talents.

  • @krazyakres
    @krazyakres 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    My family from Michigan visited the Mississippi delta area and Louisiana two summers ago. We absolutely fell in love with the entire area. So much amazing history.

    • @mikenew11
      @mikenew11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Amazing history??????

    • @NYCITY3
      @NYCITY3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mikenew11 I know right!

    • @trevorlahey2488
      @trevorlahey2488 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mikenew11 very... rich

    • @niggabear
      @niggabear 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bro I’m from michigan and I wanna do this you from Oakland county?

    • @krazyakres
      @krazyakres 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mikenew11 I’m not understanding what you’re questioning…

  • @patandersen4271
    @patandersen4271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Love the narrator's voice, very soothing informative and filled with compassion. Thumbs up, still trying to understand why the thumbs down?.

    • @annbutler2144
      @annbutler2144 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Narrator seems to have a touch of irishness in his accent i think .

  • @tkso.philly3879
    @tkso.philly3879 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I loved this.I felt absolutely like I was there.

  • @blackberrylady6025
    @blackberrylady6025 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Remember a lots of the this growing up in Mississippi...Dad didn't like us to sing the blues either...Right we had to go to church very religious in our black community..Loves Mississippi..loves the long rains...wish we had in Kansas.....Truly God is good..To God be all the Glory...Really enjoyed this...Great video...Really enjoyed 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

    • @patandersen4271
      @patandersen4271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes God is Good, give him all the glory and praise. God bless you Black Berry lady.

  • @blackberrylady6025
    @blackberrylady6025 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awww this makes me homesick 😢...I loves my beautiful state of Mississippi...grewup there..got married living in Kansas now....But loves Mississippi 💯💯💯👈🏾👈🏾👈🏾👈🏾👈🏾

  • @rohinamacanmarkar9847
    @rohinamacanmarkar9847 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really enjoyed part 1and 2 of the documentary on the Mississippi.. Thank you ..

  • @borderreiver3288
    @borderreiver3288 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    just amazing journey...you would think this is back in the sixties not today....amazing history and just love the blues music....

  • @fritzschwanserhauser2266
    @fritzschwanserhauser2266 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    An excelent show! Thankyou! Very interesting and fun! Fascinating documentary about life along the Mississippi !

  • @raj1894
    @raj1894 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Excellant I really enjoyed it I lived in USA for four yrs Green Card drove 8500miles from HUSTON TO BALTIMORE ENTIRE EAST COAST COST up to Texas boarder crossed Macalan went in to Mexico also Loredo then to Niveda from there I drove to PHENIX Arizona then to LA Life in little towns in USA are fairly peaceful but my tears are Blacks who realy cont ributed and lot of them have sacrificed for USA but are even today treated like DIRT I have thousands of friends and they still keep in touch I enjoyed my stay in USA I have no hope going back THANK YOU SIR

  • @Allegedly..Angela
    @Allegedly..Angela หลายเดือนก่อน

    Loving this series. Greetings From the bluffs of the Mississippi in Natchez MS

  • @vivsiv
    @vivsiv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Beautiful piece of work, deserves millions of views, what has happened to our taste for media?

  • @WACRE44
    @WACRE44 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Blues and jazz are the best music

  • @keithsage1593
    @keithsage1593 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It was a sad day when we lost Dr King.. Canada.

  • @theforgottenhistoryofnatch412
    @theforgottenhistoryofnatch412 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Tamales were an Indian dish. Choctaws, Chickasaws, Caddoes, and I've heard even the Cherokees made tamales. If a Mexican introduced tamales to Mississippi it was that Aztec trader that was trading with those tribes and who introduced the Mississippian culture to the American Southeast long before the Europeans ever got here.

  • @dontaethomas2638
    @dontaethomas2638 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So many memories.. I'm young and from Florida and graduated from MVSU 2012 in Itta Bena. Growing up in Florida they never taught us this history but I learned very quickly during my college years and 8 yrs living in the Delta. So much history I wish the world could see. I have so many stories about the catfish capital of the world Belzoni, Parchman Prison, Emmit T memorial, Mrs Fannie Lou (Ruleville, Ms) even the football legends Mannings growing up in (Drew, Ms), the MS burning, I even learned the TRUE definition of "cross the tracks". I have much much more that ive learned. I've been to many places in the US and this is history is definitely overlooked or almost like a secret. Great video!

  • @colinsmith2488
    @colinsmith2488 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    My black brothers and sisters have had some very trying times in the usa both physically and mentally all because of slavery and sadly after so many generations of marginalization and victimization the struggle still continues on to today

    • @irisrobinson969
      @irisrobinson969 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The slaves were robbed of everything. Tell the truth.

    • @georgepops5483
      @georgepops5483 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Real talk nothing but the truth

    • @frostylunetta
      @frostylunetta ปีที่แล้ว

      😢 Dear black brothers and sisters in America, our brothers in the brown community (especially South Asians like Indian, Pakistani and Nepali people) are also still facing horrible racial discrimination in Hong Kong just because we have darker skin (even for generations South Asians have been contributing to Hong Kong society)

  • @blackberrylady6025
    @blackberrylady6025 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Food looks mighty good...Barbeque & the Tamales...👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅

    • @wickedskieschasing
      @wickedskieschasing 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh honey it is the best you could ever eat

  • @chollysquid764
    @chollysquid764 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Nice to see Eddie "The Chief" Clearwater's guitar in the Clarksdale blues museum .....

  • @ironhorse3497
    @ironhorse3497 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Great Documentary, Thanks for sharing!! :)

  • @leeanncollins9091
    @leeanncollins9091 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great documetry

  • @mellotainment
    @mellotainment 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Despite its racist past Mississippi does have an amazing musical heritage especially blues music, and u can find some beautiful landscape if you’re not careful.

  • @elicasey3967
    @elicasey3967 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    simply brilliant from all angles. thank you

  • @paulmarsh5325
    @paulmarsh5325 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I DIG THE SOUTHERN DRAWL.

  • @francismuiruri9064
    @francismuiruri9064 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I like this.

  • @m10bob22
    @m10bob22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very grateful for this series and the posting here in youtube...I suspect the number of "thumbs down" folks compared to the rest of us made their judgment with a racist purpose as opposed to much of the actual content of this nice series?
    Racism is NOT something any of us is born with...it must be taught...and since none of us really knows the color of our Creator, it would be foolish to disrespect anybody...based on their race.

  • @karenhargis3422
    @karenhargis3422 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Whoa Yes! That BBQ looks good

  • @tilethio
    @tilethio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Loved this documentary, the narrator is also excellent. This is my first insight into the deep south. How rich is the river banks of the Mississipi river? I wonder why many of the towns and the life of its residents not changed as it should be tho.

  • @kennethnugent8255
    @kennethnugent8255 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I'm so tired of dam ads on youtube.....geeeez....

    • @servicarrider
      @servicarrider 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There are all sorts of free add blockers . removers out there. Download one....geeeze.

    • @joannswampgirl2487
      @joannswampgirl2487 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kenneth nugent search for adblock fast and install it and you wont see no more ads. I love it, its easy. All you have to do is open it up and sign into your youtube account Nd your ad free.

    • @kimjohnson8471
      @kimjohnson8471 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      $10.81 TH-cam Red. One of my best investments. 😄

    • @douglaspaterson5269
      @douglaspaterson5269 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Any relation to Ted?🤔😉🤫

  • @jeweetwelbeterdandat9665
    @jeweetwelbeterdandat9665 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    20:45 that´s Art!!

  • @theforgottenhistoryofnatch412
    @theforgottenhistoryofnatch412 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They didn't really research the cotton industry. In the early days of cotton growing the gin was a piece of equipment that each plantation needed, The cotton would be picked, ginned and pressed into bales. The bales would be loaded on wagons and taken to either to the port on the plantation where it would be sent to New Orleans for sale or to the cotton factors in a near by town that would buy and ship it to New Orleans, Rather than wagons and steamboats what plantations have today are fleets of tractor trailer rigs. So instead of having to keep, and maintain equipment, and hire seasonal labor they put the cotton in these trailers and ship it over the highways to big gins like the one at Frogmore plantation between Jonesville and Ferriday where the cotton is ginned baled and sold. The gin handles the ginning baling and selling of cotton from many plantations. Rather than each plantation having a gin that works a short period each year on a limited amount of cotton, large gins work longer seasons ginning baling and selling huge amounts of cotton. The gin is a business and not just a part of the individual farm process leading to a much more efficient system of processing and marketing.

  • @92natesmith
    @92natesmith 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m from greenwood where Baptist town is and my mother and siblings grew up in money, ms

    • @cherrysmart3500
      @cherrysmart3500 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Does anyone live in Money, Mississippi now?

    • @92natesmith
      @92natesmith 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cherrysmart3500 not many people, it’s a hand full of houses there now. It’s pretty much a ghost town

  • @francismuiruri9064
    @francismuiruri9064 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Emmet Till

  • @maryfaye1327
    @maryfaye1327 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Black people didn't only live in the Delta of Mississippi. They live and lived all over Mississippi. And canoes have been out way before this young man even thought about having a business in Mississippi. And the blues in Mississippi and other parts of the south are songs of black slaves and there off springs struggles coming up in the deep South and other parts of America.🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

    • @rashadharris4700
      @rashadharris4700 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      A good few in the Memphis metro

    • @jKLa
      @jKLa ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rashadharris4700 Southern Memphis suburbs are in Mississippi but Memphis and most of it's metropolitan area are in Tennessee and one county is in Arkansas.

  • @daphnerodriguez9980
    @daphnerodriguez9980 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    THANKS YOU GOODNESS 🌟❤️🖤💚🤎 FAMILY DAPHNE COTTON ALWAYS 💜,

  • @Ook1731
    @Ook1731 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ❤❤❤

  • @mechcavandy986
    @mechcavandy986 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was a 4th generation cotton farmer. We never had child labor. The term, pickaninny, came from farm owners coming to the field and asking the child’s mother, “He picking any?” 🙀🙀🙀

  • @satyampandey890
    @satyampandey890 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    5:48 So good 🛶

  • @thepubliclandnomad3365
    @thepubliclandnomad3365 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ole buddy dont know what jesus talkin about. Emmitt never whistled at that woman. She ended up confessing not too long ago.

  • @t-babyyupressed2906
    @t-babyyupressed2906 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The Man With The Cotton Fields Look Like He Have Ah Little Chocolate In His Background

    • @endlesswave2685
      @endlesswave2685 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought So Too!

    • @seadog915
      @seadog915 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Everybody who is really from the south has a little...or a lot! Especially the Gulf states, Georgia and the Carolinas.

    • @seadog915
      @seadog915 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I know a guy who looks like he would mostly be northern european/scot or Irish.He just got one of those DNA tests for a Xmas present! Man, WAS HE SURPRISED!!

    • @greghackney8437
      @greghackney8437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We all do.

    • @jKLa
      @jKLa ปีที่แล้ว

      @@seadog915 not everyone nor even most, but genetic studies do show it is indeed very common for vanilla in the Deep South to have a little (or more then a little) "hidden" chocolate!

  • @annettemillette4091
    @annettemillette4091 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    always good to see what happens to black people in the Mississippi

    • @ernestjett225
      @ernestjett225 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What that mean?

    • @pinkkitty9695
      @pinkkitty9695 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ernestjett225 What u think that mean?

  • @sarahpark8619
    @sarahpark8619 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice narrator!!!

  • @jamesgrant3812
    @jamesgrant3812 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Song at 33 minutes?

  • @justenmcfalls4403
    @justenmcfalls4403 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i've seen slave shacks on the banks of the Mississippi in a little town called St Genevieve Missouri

    • @TheGeoScholar
      @TheGeoScholar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Missouri was a slave state too.

  • @ebybeehoney
    @ebybeehoney 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What year was this filmed?

    • @HerAeolianHarp
      @HerAeolianHarp 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think around 2008.

  • @mechcavandy986
    @mechcavandy986 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The floods were in 1927 and 1937, not “1932!”

  • @seancurran8249
    @seancurran8249 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How long can black people keep blaming slavery for all their problems, the Irish don’t keep blaming their English oppresses, 🙏🙏🙏🙏

    • @swacman04
      @swacman04 ปีที่แล้ว

      Next, you’ll claim that “the Irish suffered through Jim Crow too”. Y’all sound stupid as hell.

    • @seancurran8249
      @seancurran8249 ปีที่แล้ว

      Blacks never had it as bad as the Irish did and still do, how can people not understand this ,✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

    • @swacman04
      @swacman04 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@seancurran8249 of course not. Blacks were never that stupid.

    • @jKLa
      @jKLa ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very few do blaim slavery for ALL or even most of their problems! Idiotic "question"...

  • @RareGem369
    @RareGem369 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Why so many adds on this video? It's really not necessary and ruins the video

    • @ironhorse3497
      @ironhorse3497 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, somebody's gotta pay for all this work.. Necessary evil i'd say... Just try to grin and bear them - plus you've only gotta watch the first 6 seconds or so.

    • @pinkkitty9695
      @pinkkitty9695 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rare One...ads

    • @talesofintrigue3315
      @talesofintrigue3315 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What ads?

  • @acajudi100
    @acajudi100 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    1942 Chicago

  • @sarahsosa729
    @sarahsosa729 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    But there are "Bad People" in all "Colors" of peoples!!! It's what you are taught growing up. But, there are some souls that would listen to the "side of the devil" no matter the "good" that was taught.

  • @patricktompkins1103
    @patricktompkins1103 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I will never patronize a business who advertises on you tube, or purchase products advertised here.

  • @Skrattmannen91
    @Skrattmannen91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The narrator, is it Carl Sagan ?

  • @sweetbabyYEEiiJJ
    @sweetbabyYEEiiJJ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    32:28 WILLY THE BOSS

  • @christopherstmarin
    @christopherstmarin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    John sorry buddy, keep practising

  • @d2arya9z
    @d2arya9z 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Kind of 3d world country views so far mh🤔

    • @thebee9853
      @thebee9853 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's just very rural.

    • @douglaspaterson5269
      @douglaspaterson5269 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      West Virginia is worse.🤫🙈🙉🙊

  • @ydyd4410
    @ydyd4410 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Makes 1 dollar per pair. Thats one hellava way of sayin' he makes a million dollar a year.

  • @annanannee2156
    @annanannee2156 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    In what year was that filmed?

    • @michaelkylow4411
      @michaelkylow4411 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It looks like in 2009; view the calendar at 11:10.

    • @michaelkylow4411
      @michaelkylow4411 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's been seven months since you asked, so I guess it does not matter to you any more, haha.

    • @diegop2311
      @diegop2311 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What about know?

  • @runnoft7212
    @runnoft7212 ปีที่แล้ว

    It’s disconcerting of what y’all choose to believe about blacks fighting for the Confederacy, even though the truth was literally staring y’all in the face. The victors wright the history and vomit their version of the truth. The real truth of Vicksburg was that they tried to surrender days earlier, because the citizenry were starving, but the tyrants army wouldn’t allow it until Independence Day. (To teach them a lesson) Vicksburg didn’t celebrate July 4th until 1976, because of the amount of innocent civilians loss of life due to starvation.

  • @acajudi100
    @acajudi100 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love Queretaro. USA too deadly and expensive. MOVE if problems where you live now. USA owes us $75K for relocation. Help Americans FIRST, with our money! I order groceries for home delivery. I have very kind families here. If you are on a pension, why live in a deadly city, and a city without clean water. MOVE! Safer and less expensive here, and I will be 80 in October.

  • @uratrick
    @uratrick 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lawd it was so bad cry me a river. A libs dream come true.

  • @Guitar-U
    @Guitar-U 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This guys voice has no business narrating a documentary about the delta. No soul, no charm and no timbre. Charter banking perhaps?

    • @edwinmorris3994
      @edwinmorris3994 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      On the contrary, I thought the narrator gave great care to his task, and spoke precisely and beautifully.
      A wonderful presentation.
      Ed Morris

  • @user-vh1sh1xl5k
    @user-vh1sh1xl5k 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hopefully John, the river man, will surrender his life to the Creator of this great river...

  • @rogeliogonzalez5293
    @rogeliogonzalez5293 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    OH FFS, NARRATOR....SPEAK UP! SHEEESH!

  • @jobotell
    @jobotell 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tamales its a Mexican recipe!!!! Sorry for that.

    • @sarahsosa729
      @sarahsosa729 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There's are differently in taste, sauce, and spices firm my Mexican Heritage ones.

    • @sarahsosa729
      @sarahsosa729 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just heard the narrator say Mexican's taught the Blacks their way to make the tamales. BUT EVERY TOWN, NEIGHBOR, AND STATE IN MEXICO MAKES THEM DIFFERENTLY. OVER 200 YRS AGO.

    • @jKLa
      @jKLa ปีที่แล้ว

      The Mississippi temales were inspired by Mexican tamales but are uneque and from Mississippi.

    • @jKLa
      @jKLa ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sarahsosa729 yes, tamales were introduced by Mexicans (most likely Tejanos from Texas) in the 1800's but then altered to Mississippi tastes. Hot tamales are a distinctly Mississippi dish.

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    @celsoprincipal351 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    UFFFFF UGHHHHHHH

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  • @zkissmyash4330
    @zkissmyash4330 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wer muss es sich auch für die Schule angucken? Gvbs?