Note to recorder:
please, read it at natural speed
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LOUISIANA, A FORMER SLAVE STATE
From the 18th century until the Civil War ( 1861-1865), more than 1,600 plantations grew up in Louisiana along the Mississippi river. They produced cotton and sugar cane . With an economy based on the use of Black slaves imported from Africa, planters became immensely rich and built enormous houses recognizable thanks to
their white columns and white verandas.
In the plantation fields, Black slaves sang songs and ballads of their suffering…to get some courage… An original sound was rising from the cotton fields : Blues was born !
I recorded plantations were built in Louisiana - I would not use grew up. Maybe sprung up? Let me know if you want me to re-record.