Exodusters

Exoduster movement
Refugees on Levee, 1879
Date1879
LocationUnited States
Also known asExodus of 1879
CauseDisenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era
ParticipantsGovernment of the United States
African Americans
Outcome
  • 98,000 sign emigration papers
  • Around 26,000 African Americans arrive in Kansas

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.[1] It was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War.[2]

The movement received substantial organizational support from prominent figures, such as Benjamin Singleton of Tennessee, Philip D. Armour of Chicago, and Henry Adams[3] of Louisiana. As many as 40,000 Exodusters left the South to settle in Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado.[4]

  1. ^ Van Deusen, JohnG. (1936). "The Exodus of 1879". The Journal of Negro History. 21 (2). Association for the Study of African American Life and History: 111–129. doi:10.2307/2714567. JSTOR 2714567. S2CID 224830636.
  2. ^ Johnson, Daniel M.; Campbell, Rex R. (1981). Black Migration in America: A Social Demographic History. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. p. 51. ISBN 0-8223-0449-X. OCLC 6421175.
  3. ^ Wang, Tabitha (June 24, 2008). "Henry Adams [Louisiana] (1843-?) •".
  4. ^ "Slavery in America Encyclopedia". Archived from the original on 2007-08-27. Retrieved 2007-10-19.

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