Exoduster movement

Cards (7)

  • 4 million slaves were set free in the south at the end of the Civil War
  • the settlers from the south treated the former slaves violently and wouldn't sell the land
  • black people left the south to be homesteaders - new life away from former slave owners
  • Kansas - Ben Singleton - their was a rumour that Kansas was just for ex-slaves in 1879 (false)
  • by 1879 40000 ex slaves had moved to the plains
  • labelled the Exodusters as the journey was dry and dusty
  • consequence of the Exodusters - mass migration to the west - 43107 people, covering 81km2