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In some cases, abolitionists established new towns near the Missouri-Kansas border to reinforce the “cause of liberty.” An example of such a town is Quindaro , located in present-day Kansas City, Kansas.
Jan 31, 2023 · In 1879, Singleton’s tireless appeal helped encourage some 20,000 African Americans from the Deep South to migrate to Kansas over the next two years in what became known as the Great Exodus of ...
- Farrell Evans
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Feb 17, 2023 · Because of its history as the home state of abolitionist John Brown and the site of fervent "free state" sentiments during the antebellum period, black southerners viewed Kansas as a place of refuge.
By the time Kansas was organized as a territory, the abolitionists — the radical wing of the original society — had become strong enough to attract attention from one end of the country to the other.
When Kansas Territory opened for settlement in 1854 several members of Brown’s family moved to the area. His half-sister Florella (Brown) and her husband Samuel Adair, were abolitionists and drawn to be a part of the free-state cause.
Abolitionists were people who believed that slavery was immoral and who wanted slavery in the United States to come to an end. They had influenced political debates in the United States from the late 17th century through the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.
Following the Civil War, African Americans began to move from the South to seek better lives. Promoters encouraged black families to move to Graham County in western Kansas. By the summer of 1877, prior to the African American "exoduster" movement, 300 blacks established a new town called Nicodemus. Several African American settlements were ...
