The African Americans who migrated called themselves "exodusters"
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Historically the Comanche lived on the southern Plains in Texas, having gradually migrated from the areas that became Colorado and Kansas in the 18th century. Today they are in Oklahoma.
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Originally, the Kickapoo, a tribe of Native Americans, lived in areas of Michigan and Ohio. They ceded their lands and were placed in reservation in Kansas and Oklahoma by the American government.
Dorothy is from Kansas.
Wide open spaces.
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No, they came from West Africa. No doubt Kansas would have been the home of some Native Americans.
Nicodemus is a place where African Americans could have their own land of freedom.
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Nothing. If it had succeeded, slavery would not have been abolished as early as 1865.
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Yes. It is located in Kansas and is the only remaining town built by African Americans following the US Civil War.
There was one after the civil war when 60,000 blacks migrated west looking for opportunity in Kansas and Oklahoma. There was another one between 1940 and 1970 when millions of southern blacks migrated north to industrial cities like Chicago and Detroit looking for work.
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