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Black "Exodusters" Explain their Reasons for Leaving the South
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. Taking their cue from the Book of Exodus in the [...]
Tags: Exodusters
Item Type: Diary/Letter
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
A Sharecropper Explains Why He Joined the Exodusters (1879)
John Solomon Lewis of Leavenworth, Kansas, wrote this letter on June 10, 1879. Lewis and his family were among thousands of African Americans known as "Exodusters" who escaped the harsh economic difficulties and racist systems of the Reconstruction [...]
Tags: Exodusters, Reconstruction
Item Type: Diary/Letter
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)