Exodusters
Migration of African Americans from the South to Kansas after the Civil War, drawn by homestead opportunity and Kansas’s association with free-state struggle.
Places
- Nicodemus. Nicodemus (Graham County) was founded in 1877 by newly freed African Americans as part of the mass Black migration to Kansas.
- Topeka. NPS states that in 1877 six Black entrepreneurs in Topeka joined with a white developer to form the Nicodemus Town Company.
- Dunlap. Kansapedia records that Benjamin Pap Singleton established an Exoduster colony at Dunlap in Morris County in 1878.
- Atchison. Kansapedia states that most Exodusters arrived by steamboats landing in the river cities of Wyandotte, Atchison, and Kansas City.
- Kansas City. Kansapedia states that most Exodusters arrived by steamboats landing in the river cities of Wyandotte, Atchison, and Kansas City.