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  • noun Plural form of Exoduster.

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  • There are also lesser-known stories, of black "" Exodusters '' who fled to Kansas from slavery in the South, and the romance on the range culled from the correspondence of sheep rancher John Love, who wooed a young schoolmarm for years until she finally agreed to be his wife.

    Taming The West ... Again 2008

  • He was born in Topeka, a child of “the Exodusters”—thousands of former slaves his father, Alonzo, had helped lead from the violence and poverty of the post-Reconstruction South to the relative freedom of Kansas.

    Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

  • He was born in Topeka, a child of “the Exodusters”—thousands of former slaves his father, Alonzo, had helped lead from the violence and poverty of the post-Reconstruction South to the relative freedom of Kansas.

    Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

  • He was born in Topeka, a child of “the Exodusters”—thousands of former slaves his father, Alonzo, had helped lead from the violence and poverty of the post-Reconstruction South to the relative freedom of Kansas.

    Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

  • He was born in Topeka, a child of “the Exodusters”—thousands of former slaves his father, Alonzo, had helped lead from the violence and poverty of the post-Reconstruction South to the relative freedom of Kansas.

    Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

  • He was born in Topeka, a child of “the Exodusters”—thousands of former slaves his father, Alonzo, had helped lead from the violence and poverty of the post-Reconstruction South to the relative freedom of Kansas.

    Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

  • He was born in Topeka, a child of “the Exodusters”—thousands of former slaves his father, Alonzo, had helped lead from the violence and poverty of the post-Reconstruction South to the relative freedom of Kansas.

    Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

  • PAINTER: My thesis, which became a book, my first book, called "Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction," published in January 1997 -- no, January 1977, yeah.

    Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol 1996

  • During the late 1870s, moreover, Nell Painter showed in The Exodusters, published in 1977, that the main thrust of black migration was westward to states like Kansas.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

  • During the late 1870s, moreover, Nell Painter showed in The Exodusters, published in 1977, that the main thrust of black migration was westward to states like Kansas.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

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