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Kansas was settled around 1850 with the Kansas-Nebraska Act. =)
Norwegian immigrants settled in Kansas and Wisconsin and brought wheat strains that flourished in the American Midwest.
enjamin "pap" singleton
The Kansas Fever exodus took place in 1879. (see related link below for more information).
No, he is Latino. His wife, however, is Black.
The African Americans who migrated called themselves "exodusters"
Wide open spaces.
No, they came from West Africa. No doubt Kansas would have been the home of some Native Americans.
Kansas was settled around 1850 with the Kansas-Nebraska Act. =)
Nicodemus is a place where African Americans could have their own land of freedom.
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
Exodusters
Nicodemus, Kansas was one of the first towns founded by African-Americans during the Reconstruction period. To many freed blacks who had already suffered the backlash of white southerners, Nicodemus seemed like an oasis. Kansas was considered a very liberal state with a large amount of abolitionists, such as John Brown, hailing from the state.
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Nothing. If it had succeeded, slavery would not have been abolished as early as 1865.
exodusters
John Solomon Lewis was an African-American "exoduster" who traveled from Louisanna to settle with his family in Kansas during post civil-war Reconstruction in the South.