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http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2015/02/eric-s-blog/black-hillbilly-or-what-you-really-know-about-the-upper-south-.html The fiddle and the banjo soon made their way to the mountains of the *Upper South <https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Upper-South/188261864572632?ref=br_tf>* where they were played at barn dances and frolics by free men. Although it’s probably a widely held assumption that free blacks all hightailed it to the *North,* most actually remained in the *South*. Many free black southerners came from the *Caribbean <http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/caribbean/page1.html> *or had lived in *France <http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/france/page1.html>*’s* La Louisiane <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_%28New_France%29>, *where blacks were free until it was purchased by the *US <http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/usa/page1.html>*. Even more were freed former slaves who either elected to remain or were unable to leave. In 1860, 84% lived not in the *Deep South <http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/Deep-South/page1.html>*, however, but in the hilly *Upper South <http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/Upper-South/page1.html>* (*Arkansas <http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/arkansas/page1.html>*,*Kentucky <http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/kentucky/page1.html>*, *Missouri <http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/missouri/page1.html>*, *North Carolina <http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/north-carolina/page1.html>*, *Tennessee <http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/tennessee/page1.html>*, and *Virginia <http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/virginia/page1.html>*). _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
