History of the United States II / Unit 2 USH2 0157 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Exodusters
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The idea
More than twenty-five thousand African Americans, called Exodusters, moved to Kansas in eighteen seventy-nine and eighteen eighty alone.
In practice
More than five hundred thousand Black people living west of the Mississippi by eighteen ninety.
Where people slip
Both figures are the anchor's. The migrants were leaving a South where Reconstruction had ended.
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