African American Regional History - Western States, Civil War and Reconstruction - African American History, Kansas - State & Local History

Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction

Name: Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction
Author: Nell Irvin Painter
ISBN: 9780393009514

by Nell Irvin Painter

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Overview

'In 1879, fourteen years after the Emancipation Proclamation, thousands of blacks fled the South. They were headed for the homesteading lands of Kansas, the 'Garden Spot of the Earth' and the 'quintessential Free State, the land of John Brown'....Painter examines their exodus in fascinating detail. In the process, she offers a compelling portrait of the post-Reconstruction South and the desperate efforts by blacks and whites in that chaotic period to 'solve the race problem' once and for all.'--Newsweek

Synopsis

The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves.

About the Author, Nell Irvin Painter

Nell Irvin Painter is the award-winning author of many books, including Sojourner Truth, Southern History Across the Color Line, Creating Black Americans, The History of White People, and Standing at Armageddon. She is currently the Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University and lives in Newark, New Jersey.