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1. www.nationalgeographic.com › history › articleBefore the Great Migration, there was the Great Exodus. Here ...

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   Jun 17, 2024 · The Great Exodus peaked in the spring of 1879 when about 6,000 African Americans left Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas on trains and steamboats heading to St. Louis, the halfway point in the...

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2. www.archives.gov › 2008 › summerExodus to Kansas - National Archives

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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.

3. www.tshaonline.org › handbook › entriesExodus of 1879 - TSHA

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   Jan 1, 1995 · Exodus of 1879. Beginning around 1875 a group of Black Texas freedmen determined to move to Kansas, where a homestead act offered free land to settlers willing to meet occupancy and improvement qualifications.

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5. www.biblicalarchaeology.org › daily › biblicalThe Exodus: Fact or Fiction? - Biblical Archaeology Society

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   Oct 24, 2024 · Is the Biblical Exodus fact or fiction? Scholars and archaeologists argue about aspects of Israel’s Exodus but many agree it occurred.

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_ExodusThe Exodus - Wikipedia

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   The Exodus (Hebrew: יציאת מצרים, Yəṣīʾat Mīṣrayīm: lit. ' Departure from Egypt ' [a]) is the founding myth [b] of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Pentateuch (specifically, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy).

7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Texas_annexationTexas annexation - Wikipedia

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   He envisioned Texas as a corridor through which both free and enslaved African-Americans could be "diffused" southward in a gradual exodus that would ultimately supply labor to the Central American tropics, and in time, empty the United States of its slave population.

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   Why was the Kansas Exodus a bad thing?

   • Thus the Kansas Exodus was an inconvenient blow to both whites, who expected the masses of black workers in the South to quietly conform to their new role as a cheap, compliant labor force, and to African American elites, who expected them to blindly follow the dictates of the official "black leadership" and the Republican Party.

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   What happened during the exodus of 1879?

   • Exodus of 1879. Beginning around 1875 a group of Black Texas freedmen determined to move to Kansas, where a homestead act offered free land to settlers willing to meet occupancy and improvement qualifications. Between 1875 and 1880 Kansas became the "promised land" and "Kansas fever" spread, as Black Texans left the Democratic South.

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   When did the great exodus begin?

   • The Great Exodus peaked in the spring of 1879 when about 6,000 African Americans left Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas on trains and steamboats heading to St. Louis, the halfway point in the Exoduster journey, before crossing Missouri to settle in areas in Topeka and Atchison.

   Before the Great Migration, there was the Great Exodus. Here's what

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   What was the Kansas Exodus?

   • These romanticized ideas of Kansas, along with the continued deterioration of their lives in the South, produced a sudden exodus. This "Kansas Exodus," also referred to as the "Exoduster" movement, represents the first major episode in an extensive history of voluntary mass migration among African Americans.

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   How did the great exodus rewrite Black History?

   • “It was the first major instance of African Americans…‘voting with their feet,’ demonstrating their discontent with the South,” says Damani Davis, reference archivist for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). In a way, the Great Exodus and Nicodemus helped rewrite Black history in America.

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   Is the Exodus a true story?

   • The article explains: The storyline of the Exodus, of a people fleeing from a humiliating slavery, suggests elements that are historically credible. Normally, it is only tales of glory and victory that are preserved in narratives from one generation to the next. A history of being slaves is likely to bear elements of truth.

   The Exodus: Fact or Fiction? - Biblical Archaeology Society

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9. www.britannica.com › event › Great-MigrationGreat Migration | Definition, History, Map, & Dates | Britannica

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   Sep 27, 2024 · Between 1916 and 1970 an estimated six million Black people made this exodus. The bulk of this mass relocation happened between the 1940s—when World War II began and more jobs were being offered in the North and West—and 1970.