Apparently chicken was the only animal slaves were permitted/could afford to raise. This association along with the popularity of minstrels led to restaurants such as this:
According to The Marist College Circle
To answer this question we would have to travel first to 18th century Scotland, where the Scottish, unlike their English brethren, would fry instead of boil their chicken. Scottish immigrants who eventually settled in the southern parts of the United States continued this tradition, now frying using the high-calorie and inexpensive lard easily accessible on their homesteads. Their hard, agrarian lifestyle made the cheap, high-calorie food a staple.
Fried chicken was eventually assimilated into general southern cuisine, which saw the transference of these tastes to slaves who worked on southern plantations. African slaves who were cooks became familiar with this dish, and even added a few new spices not present in its original inception. And as it had been an economical and highly accessible option for the Scots years earlier, so it was for African slaves who had to use leftovers and wastes for cooking, often frying the cheaper meat of the chickens they were allowed to keep.
Or it be one important missed fact.....
IT'S DELICIOUS!!!
However, Black People MUST stop singing about chicken! It doesn't help the cause by any stretch of the imagination. Just hum a ditty in your head.
ANSWER: Inconclusive
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