Exodusters

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This, they protested, was not right; the money should be divided among those for whom it was raised -- the "exodusters" -- and not given to a school. ❋ Walter Lynwood (1909)

But the whites and blacks of St. Louis were anxious to speed the "exodusters" on their way, and formed several aid societies to assist them to go farther west. ❋ Walter Lynwood (1909)

One of these, "The Colored Men's Land Association of St. Louis," sent Singleton and DeFrantz as "land inspectors" to search out other suitable places for the settlement of "exodusters" in the western states. ❋ Walter Lynwood (1909)

When the exodus began afresh in the spring of 1880, the Kansas newspapers very willingly published statements from Singleton advising prospective "exodusters" either to stay at home or to scatter out into other northern states, for, as all maintained, Kansas had her share, there was no employment for more, and no more aid could be given to them. ❋ Walter Lynwood (1909)

The whites and resident blacks of Kansas helped the "exodusters" much, but they wanted no more of them; the laboring-class of whites threatened violence if more negroes should come. ❋ Walter Lynwood (1909)

When in the fall of 1880 Singleton went to Illinois and Indiana he had a double mission: to see if there was room for "exodusters," and to deliver Republican speeches in favor of Garfield. ❋ Walter Lynwood (1909)

Circulars were sent among the Mississippi and Louisiana "exodusters" 21 ❋ Walter Lynwood (1909)

The "exodusters" soon met opposition in labor matters. ❋ Walter Lynwood (1909)

The migration caused a lowering of wages and the poorer whites became incensed against the blacks in the parts of the state where the "exodusters" were more numerous. ❋ Walter Lynwood (1909)

In 1880 we hear Singleton and others complaining that certain funds raised by the relief societies for the needy "exodusters" had been turned over to a negro school. ❋ Walter Lynwood (1909)

St. John, instrumental in helping exodusters find settlements in Kansas after the Civil War, requested that Stafford County and the St. John area take in a colony. ❋ AMY BICKEL (2010)

21 This term was applied to the emigrants by themselves; the whites called them "refugees," "exodites," or "exodusters." to herald the virtues of the several negro colonies. ❋ Walter Lynwood (1909)

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