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This 5-page paper discusses James Cobb's book, The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity, and how the region became what it is today.
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northwest Mississippi, one of the poorest yet one of the most cultural regions in the entire world. Cobb carefully traces the history of the Mississippi Delta from the first white
settlers in the 1820s while painting a chronological picture of how the region came to be what it is today. One of Cobbs main focuses in writing the book was
to show that the Mississippi Delta that exists today is not much different than what it was when it was first settled in the early 19th century. Moreover, Cobb vividly
illustrates the art and music that originated from this area and the influences it had on southern culture as a whole. He also discusses how the people of this region,
who are predominantly black, fought, often times unsuccessfully, to overcome extreme poverty, injustice and social oppression. This essay will discuss the Civil Wars effect on the Mississippi Delta, the art
and music that originated from the region and how it came to surface, and the evident problems still facing the area today. Civil War This is one way
the student could approach this section: One of the bloodiest wars in all of human history, the American Civil War ripped the nation apart, turning father against son and
friend against neighbor. However, in the 1850s, just a decade before the war would begin, the Mississippi Delta was producing crops at record levels while the General Levee Board had
approved construction of a number of levees to prevent further elimination of local vegetation. All in all, things were looking up for the region, slave holders and plantation owners. In
fact, the number of planters in these areas whose total wealth exceeded $100,000 rose from 14 to 81 in the 1850s (Cobb, 1992, p.30). With profits increasing and the future
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