USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Two of the most prominent figures to emerge as leaders of this movement were Benjamin Singleton of Tennessee and Henry Adams of Louisiana.

Detailed explanation-3: -He called himself the “Moses of the Colored Exodus, ” and the people he led the Exodusters. In 1873, he led a group of 300 southern Blacks to settle in Cherokee County, Kansas, founding what became known as “Singleton’s Colony.”

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.