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: -Benjamin “Pap” Singleton had the desire to lead people to lands in the West and escape the racist culture of the South. He called himself the “Moses of the Colored Exodus, ” and the people he led the Exodusters.

Detailed explanation-4: -Large numbers of blacks came between 1879 and 1881. These people were called Exodusters. The name comes from the exodus from Egypt during Biblical times. Most Exodusters arrived by steamboats landing in the river cities of Wyandotte, Atchison, and Kansas City.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Exodusters’ main goal was to reach Kansas. There, they would be free from the oppression which they had experienced in the South.