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  2. African Americans in Kansas - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of slave traders of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Antebellum city directories from slave states can be valuable primary sources on the trade; slave dealers listed in the 1855 directory of Memphis, Tennessee, included Bolton & Dickens, Forrest & Maples operating at 87 Adams, Neville & Cunningham, and Byrd Hill Slave depots, including ones owned by Mason Harwell and Thomas Powell, listed in the ...

  4. History of slavery in Kansas - Wikipedia

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    The number of slaves in Kansas Territory was estimated at 200. [1] Men were engaged as farm hands, and women and children were employed in domestic work. [2] [3] The U.S. Census in spring 1860 counted only 2 slaves in Kansas; both were women who lived in Anderson County, Kansas. [4]

  5. Unearth the history of Kansas City’s lost Black neighborhood ...

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    Belvidere Hollow was a vibrant Black neighborhood in Kansas City, but by 1958 it ceased to exist entirely. ... The city razed the remaining Belvidere Hollow homes and commercial buildings to build ...

  6. List of freedmen's towns - Wikipedia

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    Many of these municipalities were established or populated by freed slaves [2] either during or after the period of legal slavery in the United States in the 19th century. [ 3 ] In Oklahoma before the end of segregation there existed dozens of these communities as many African-American migrants from the Southeast found a space whereby they ...

  7. List of slave cabins and quarters - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of slave cabins and other notable slave quarters. A number of slave quarters in the United States are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Many more are included as contributing buildings within listings having more substantial plantation houses or other structures as the main contributing resources ...

  8. Kansas City officials hope a redevelopment plan will reverse years of decline at one of the first Black-owned housing cooperatives. Kansas City officials hope a redevelopment plan will reverse ...

  9. African-American slave owners - Wikipedia

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    By 1830, there were 3,775 black (including mixed-race) slaveholders in the South who owned a total of 12,760 slaves, which was a small percentage of a total of over two million slaves then held in the South. [6] 80% of the black slaveholders were located in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.