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

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  • Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
  • 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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Комментарии • 132

  • @karenhargis3422
    @karenhargis3422 4 года назад +42

    I am mesmerized with the south and it’s richness

  • @suzystone244
    @suzystone244 4 года назад +15

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

  • @krazyakres
    @krazyakres 5 лет назад +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 года назад +5

      Amazing history??????

    • @NYCITY3
      @NYCITY3 3 года назад +2

      @@mikenew11 I know right!

    • @trevorlahey2488
      @trevorlahey2488 3 года назад

      @@mikenew11 very... rich

    • @niggabear
      @niggabear 2 года назад

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

    • @krazyakres
      @krazyakres 2 года назад

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

  • @blackberrylady6025
    @blackberrylady6025 3 года назад +3

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

  • @blackberrylady6025
    @blackberrylady6025 5 лет назад +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 года назад +1

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

  • @patandersen4271
    @patandersen4271 4 года назад +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 года назад +1

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

  • @tkso.philly3879
    @tkso.philly3879 4 года назад +17

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

  • @rohinamacanmarkar9847
    @rohinamacanmarkar9847 Год назад +2

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

  • @Allegedly..Angela
    @Allegedly..Angela Месяц назад

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

  • @borderreiver3288
    @borderreiver3288 4 года назад +2

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

  • @vivsiv
    @vivsiv 3 года назад +5

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

  • @WACRE44
    @WACRE44 4 года назад +3

    Blues and jazz are the best music

  • @fritzschwanserhauser2266
    @fritzschwanserhauser2266 4 года назад +10

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

  • @raj1894
    @raj1894 5 лет назад +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

  • @keithsage1593
    @keithsage1593 3 года назад +3

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

  • @blackberrylady6025
    @blackberrylady6025 5 лет назад +12

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

  • @dontaethomas2638
    @dontaethomas2638 4 года назад +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!

  • @leeanncollins9091
    @leeanncollins9091 Год назад +2

    Great documetry

  • @chollysquid764
    @chollysquid764 4 года назад +6

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

  • @theforgottenhistoryofnatch412
    @theforgottenhistoryofnatch412 4 года назад +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.

  • @colinsmith2488
    @colinsmith2488 4 года назад +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 года назад

      The slaves were robbed of everything. Tell the truth.

    • @georgepops5483
      @georgepops5483 2 года назад +2

      Real talk nothing but the truth

    • @frostylunetta
      @frostylunetta Год назад

      😢 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)

  • @ironhorse3497
    @ironhorse3497 4 года назад +9

    Great Documentary, Thanks for sharing!! :)

  • @paulmarsh5325
    @paulmarsh5325 11 месяцев назад +2

    I DIG THE SOUTHERN DRAWL.

  • @mellotainment
    @mellotainment 2 года назад +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.

  • @m10bob22
    @m10bob22 4 года назад +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.

  • @elicasey3967
    @elicasey3967 4 года назад +2

    simply brilliant from all angles. thank you

  • @francismuiruri9064
    @francismuiruri9064 4 года назад +3

    I like this.

  • @jeweetwelbeterdandat9665
    @jeweetwelbeterdandat9665 3 года назад +1

    20:45 that´s Art!!

  • @tilethio
    @tilethio 3 года назад +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.

  • @karenhargis3422
    @karenhargis3422 4 года назад +8

    Whoa Yes! That BBQ looks good

  • @kennethnugent8255
    @kennethnugent8255 4 года назад +18

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    • @servicarrider
      @servicarrider 4 года назад +1

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

    • @joannswampgirl2487
      @joannswampgirl2487 4 года назад +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 года назад

      $10.81 RUclips Red. One of my best investments. 😄

    • @douglaspaterson5269
      @douglaspaterson5269 2 года назад

      Any relation to Ted?🤔😉🤫

  • @satyampandey890
    @satyampandey890 2 года назад

    5:48 So good 🛶

  • @92natesmith
    @92natesmith 3 года назад +1

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

    • @cherrysmart3500
      @cherrysmart3500 2 года назад

      Does anyone live in Money, Mississippi now?

    • @92natesmith
      @92natesmith 2 года назад

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

  • @daphnerodriguez9980
    @daphnerodriguez9980 3 года назад

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

  • @francismuiruri9064
    @francismuiruri9064 4 года назад +6

    Emmet Till

  • @Ook1731
    @Ook1731 3 года назад +1

    ❤❤❤

  • @theforgottenhistoryofnatch412
    @theforgottenhistoryofnatch412 4 года назад +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.

  • @sarahpark8619
    @sarahpark8619 2 года назад

    Nice narrator!!!

  • @maryfaye1327
    @maryfaye1327 2 года назад +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 года назад

      A good few in the Memphis metro

    • @jKLa
      @jKLa Год назад

      @@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.

  • @jamesgrant3812
    @jamesgrant3812 Год назад +1

    Song at 33 minutes?

  • @annettemillette4091
    @annettemillette4091 4 года назад +2

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

  • @mechcavandy986
    @mechcavandy986 3 месяца назад

    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?” 🙀🙀🙀

  • @justenmcfalls4403
    @justenmcfalls4403 4 года назад +2

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

    • @TheGeoScholar
      @TheGeoScholar 3 года назад +1

      Missouri was a slave state too.

  • @thepubliclandnomad3365
    @thepubliclandnomad3365 4 года назад +4

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

  • @ebybeehoney
    @ebybeehoney 3 года назад +1

    What year was this filmed?

  • @t-babyyupressed2906
    @t-babyyupressed2906 4 года назад +17

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

    • @endlesswave2685
      @endlesswave2685 4 года назад

      I thought So Too!

    • @seadog915
      @seadog915 4 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +2

      We all do.

    • @jKLa
      @jKLa Год назад

      @@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!

  • @acajudi100
    @acajudi100 2 года назад

    1942 Chicago

  • @Skrattmannen91
    @Skrattmannen91 4 года назад +1

    The narrator, is it Carl Sagan ?

  • @mechcavandy986
    @mechcavandy986 3 месяца назад

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

  • @sweetbabyYEEiiJJ
    @sweetbabyYEEiiJJ 5 лет назад +1

    32:28 WILLY THE BOSS

  • @d2arya9z
    @d2arya9z 4 года назад +2

    Kind of 3d world country views so far mh🤔

  • @christopherstmarin
    @christopherstmarin 4 года назад +2

    John sorry buddy, keep practising

  • @RareGem369
    @RareGem369 5 лет назад +6

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

    • @ironhorse3497
      @ironhorse3497 4 года назад +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 года назад

      Rare One...ads

    • @talesofintrigue3315
      @talesofintrigue3315 4 года назад

      What ads?

  • @sarahsosa729
    @sarahsosa729 3 года назад +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.

  • @ydyd4410
    @ydyd4410 2 года назад +1

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

  • @seancurran8249
    @seancurran8249 Год назад +2

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

    • @swacman04
      @swacman04 Год назад

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

    • @seancurran8249
      @seancurran8249 Год назад

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

    • @swacman04
      @swacman04 Год назад

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

    • @jKLa
      @jKLa Год назад +1

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

  • @patricktompkins1103
    @patricktompkins1103 4 года назад +2

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

  • @uratrick
    @uratrick 5 лет назад +2

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

  • @Guitar-U
    @Guitar-U 3 года назад +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 года назад +3

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

  • @celsoprincipal351
    @celsoprincipal351 3 года назад

    UFFFFF UGHHHHHHH

  • @acajudi100
    @acajudi100 2 года назад

    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.

  • @runnoft7212
    @runnoft7212 Год назад

    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.

  • @rogeliogonzalez5293
    @rogeliogonzalez5293 4 года назад +1

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

  • @jobotell
    @jobotell 3 года назад

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

    • @sarahsosa729
      @sarahsosa729 3 года назад +2

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

    • @sarahsosa729
      @sarahsosa729 3 года назад +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 Год назад

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

    • @jKLa
      @jKLa Год назад

      @@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.

  • @user-vh1sh1xl5k
    @user-vh1sh1xl5k 3 года назад

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

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  • @zkissmyash4330
    @zkissmyash4330 4 года назад

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

  • @annanannee2156
    @annanannee2156 5 лет назад

    In what year was that filmed?

    • @michaelkylow4411
      @michaelkylow4411 5 лет назад

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

    • @michaelkylow4411
      @michaelkylow4411 5 лет назад +1

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

    • @diegop2311
      @diegop2311 4 года назад

      What about know?