USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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. It was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War.

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: -It is estimated that in the 1870s, approximately 40, 000 to 60, 000 African Americans left the South and migrated westward.

Detailed explanation-5: -One prominent promoter of the Exodus was Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, who organized several colonies in Kansas and recruited African Americans from Tennessee to move there. The peak of the Exodus occurred in the spring of 1879 when 6, 000 migrants arrived in Kansas in only a few months.