Who invented the blues?

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2. #toiled
3. #african
4. #inventors
5. #vegetable
6. #blues
7. #descendants
8. #century
9. #originated
10. #plantations
11. #sharecroppers
12. #cotton
13. #american
14. #fields
15. #slaves