exodusters!
African Americans who migrated to the Great Plains during the late 19th and early 20th centuries were often referred to as "Exodusters." This term originated from their mass movement out of the Southern United States, particularly after the Reconstruction era, seeking better opportunities and escaping racial discrimination. Many Exodusters settled in states like Kansas, where they established communities and farms, contributing to the region's development.
Kansas was settled around 1850 with the Kansas-Nebraska Act. =)
African Americans who migrated to the Great Plains in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were commonly referred to as "Exodusters." This term specifically described those who left the South after the Civil War seeking better opportunities and escaping racial discrimination. Many Exodusters settled in states like Kansas, where they sought land and a chance to build new lives amidst the promise of the West.
Norwegian immigrants settled in Kansas and Wisconsin and brought wheat strains that flourished in the American Midwest.
An African American who moved to Kansas in the 1860s was likely part of the broader migration known as the "Exoduster Movement." This movement involved formerly enslaved individuals seeking better opportunities and freedom in the West after the Civil War. Kansas was seen as a land of promise, where they could establish communities and escape the oppressive conditions of the South. Many settled in towns like Nicodemus, which became a symbol of Black self-determination during that era.
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.
Type your answer here... Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
exodusters
Nothing. If it had succeeded, slavery would not have been abolished as early as 1865.
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.