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Kansas was admitted to the United States as a free state in 1861. Some Black slaves were imported to Kansas. Many Black migrants came from the Southern United States as hired laborers while others traveled to Kansas as escaped slaves via the Underground Railroad. Some moved from the South during the Kansas Exodus in the 1860s.
Most black migration, including the Exodus of 1879, was spurred on by the dire economic prospects of black labor in the rural South. The depression of the 1870s served to exacerbate the racist policies of white merchants and planters, who sought to offset their agricultural losses by increasing prices and interest rates for blacks. [9]
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970. [1]
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Black Towns and Profit: Promotion and Development in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1877–1915. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Hamilton, Kenneth Marvin. "The Origins and Early Promotion of Nicodemus: A Pre-Exodus, All-Black Town." Kansas History 5 (winter 1982): 220–242. Promised Land on the Solomon: Black Settlement at Nicodemus ...
Photo Credit: Kansas State Historical Society. Further Information: Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War. Kansas was the first state in the Union to enlist free Black men into the military. These units were consisted primarily of Black freedmen who had recently escaped slavery in Missouri and other surrounding slave ...
Census-Black Migration-Cities Texas Christian University assistant professor of literature Brandon Manning posses for a photo at TCU campus in Fort Worth, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022.
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