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View a slide slow of the some items from the Blues archive. {gallery}08-2008/blues{/gallery} OXFORD, Miss. – After toiling long hours in the field under a hot Mississippi Delta sun, poor black sharecroppers of the early 20th century gathered on front porches and put to music their sorrow and suffering. The soulful lyrics and sounds ofRead the story …