Exodusters
Movement of African Americans in Kansas to live freely from their former slave masters / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1879.[1] It was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War.[2]
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Date | 1879 |
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Location | United States |
Also known as | Exodus of 1879 |
Cause | Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era |
Participants | Government of the United States African Americans |
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The movement received substantial organizational support from prominent figures, such as Benjamin Singleton of Tennessee, Philip D. Armour of Chicago, and Henry Adams[3] of Louisiana. As many as 40,000 Exodusters left the South to settle in Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado.[4]