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Part One * Slavery * Nigger Minstrels and Coon Songs * FromEmancipation to Segregation * From Minstrels to Ragtime * Early New OrleansJazz and Blues * Work and Song * W.C. Handy Part Two * Charley Patton* Henry Thomas Ragtime Texas * Lead Belly * The Barrelhouse Circuit andthe Piney Woods * Migration Part Three * Crazy Blues * Showbiz Blues I:The Tent Shows * Ma Rainey * Showbiz Blues II: The Theatres * Bessie Smith* Womens Blues Part Four * The Men Start Recording * Field Recordings *Atlanta * Memphis Part Five * The Depression * City Blues * Blues in St.Louis * Blues in Chicago * The Rural South * Blues in the South PartSix * Post-war Blues * The End of an Era * Say it Loud Part Seven *Dealing with the DevilInto the Nineties * Blues as Heritage * Blues DownHomeThe New South * The Malaco Story * New SouthNew Blues * Gonna Be SomeChanges Made * Chicago Blues Today * The Strong Persuaders