USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Exodus of 1879 was the first mass migration of African Americans from the South after the Civil War. These migrants, most of them former slaves, became known as exodusters, a name which took inspiration from the biblical Exodus, during which Moses led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt and into the Promised Land.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.” The post-Civil War era should have been a time of jubilation and progress for the African-Americans of the South.

Detailed explanation-3: -Beginning in the mid-1870s, as Northern support for Radical Reconstruction retreated, thousands of African Americans chose to leave the South in the hope of finding equality on the western frontier.

Detailed explanation-4: -Exodusters 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.