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What's going to be a hundred years from now ain't much account to us.... The whites has the lands and the sense, ... The Geography of Hope; Introduction; The Exodusters; Rain Follows the Plow; A Hard Time I Have; Barbarians; The Romance of My Life; The Barrio; I Must Lose Myself Again; Friends of the Indian;
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The Exodusters were freed African Americans from the south. They lived in very poor conditions. Many of these Exodusters were sharecroppers who where cheated out of their crops and suffered poverty because they didn't make enough profit and had great debt.
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Description of Exoduster flyer in the collections of the Kansas Historical Society. ... Blacks understood that land ownership provided the economic foundation for political and social independence, yet most were unable to secure acreage for their families. This apparent lack of progress in the ... Born in 1809 in Nashville,
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A Kansas Memory Podcast ... The documents used in the Exodusters podcast are available on ... Largest Colored Colony in America! ; This advertisement for Nicodemus, Graham County, Kansas, describes the location of the colony near the Solomon River and the town company's plans to build more houses, businesses,
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Fireworks Splice HTML ... It was noted that the Exodusters reaching St. Louis "seem to regard themselves as refugees from some impending calamity rather than as emigrants seeking new homes." ... Once they reached Kansas, the Exodusters stayed poor. Generally, however, they felt better off in Kansas than they had in the South.
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Freed slaves become homesteaders ... The large-scale black migration from the South to Kansas came to be known as the "Great Exodus," and those participating in it were called "exodusters."
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Nell Irvin Painter Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After the Reconstruction, p. 100 New York: Knopf, 1977 General Collections (103) ... "Negro Exodusters en route to Kansas, fleeing from the yellow fever, " Photomural from engraving. Harpers Weekly, 1870. Historic American Building Survey Field Records, HABS FN-6,
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Adding to an air of expectancy was the "Exodusters" belief that God was delivering them from their bondage to the Promised Land. Coming mainly from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas, groups of blacks paid nominal fees to sail up the Mississippi River, then traveled westward to Kansas.
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