Exodusters - Wikipedia
WEBExodusters 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]
Exodusters - Homestead National Historical Park (U.S ...
WEBPromoters like Singleton became known as "conductors" and began leading African-American families to Kansas. Obviously, black migration to Kansas did not begin (or end) with the exodus of 1879. Thousands of freed blacks made their ways to Kansas throughout the decade of the 1870s.
Exodusters & Western Expansion | National Archives
WEBJul 12, 2022 · Before it became part of the United States, Black peoples were brought to the West by Spanish explorers and slaveholders. Some freed people and freedom seekers migrated westward in small numbers throughout the early days of the new republic.
How Benjamin ‘Pap’ Singleton Led an Exodus of Freed Black ...
WEBJan 31, 2023 · Benjamin 'Pap' Singleton. Singleton wasn’t naïve about the likelihood of racial tranquility. As a carpenter in Nashville during the turbulent Reconstruction era, he’d built coffins for Black...
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Great River City: The Arrival of the Exodusters | Missouri ...
WEBIn the spring of 1879, thousands of African Americans departed from Mississippi and Louisiana in search of a better life in Kansas—and they all came through St. Louis. .
Exodusters - Encyclopedia.com
WEBExodusters were African American homesteaders who moved westward during the last decades of the nineteenth century to settle the Great Plains. After federal troops withdrew from the South in 1877 at the end of the twelve-year period of Reconstruction (1865 – 1877), civil rights for African Americans began to erode.
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