Exodusters
description: movement of African Americans in Kansas to live freely from their former slave masters
imagesize: 310
image caption: Refugees on Levee, 1879
location: United States
cause: Mass racial violence in the United States
participants: Federal government of the United States
date: 1879
subject: Category:African-American demographics
subject: Category:History of the Southern United States
subject: Category:African-American refugees
subject: Category:Social history of Kansas
subject: Category:Politically motivated migrations
subject: Category:African-American history of Kansas
result: *98,000 sign emigration papers *Around 26,000 African Americans arrive in Kansas
subject: Category:1879 in the United States
subject: Category:1879 in Kansas
image name: Exodusters.jpeg
aka: Exodus of 1879
hypernym: Name
cause: Jim Crow economy
subject: Category:African-American history between emancipation and the civil rights movement
cause: Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era
participants: African Americans
event name: Exoduster movement