Who were the Exodusters, and why did they migrate West?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Racial discrimination and poor economic prospects convinced some southern blacks to leave the South in the decades following the Civil War.
2. In 1879, about 6,000 African Americans known as the Exodusters left Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas to establish new and freer lives in Kansas.
3. Once there, they farmed or worked as laborers.
4. All told, the Exodusters homesteaded 20,000 acres of land.
5. While they met prejudice in Kansas, it was less extreme than what they had experienced in the South.
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