Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-131) and index.
Contents
Black exodus -- The peculiar institution -- Reconstruction: presidential and congressional -- Reconstruction ends -- To find a place to live free -- Kansas: the promised land -- The "singleton colonies" -- The exodusters of 1879 -- Aiding the exodusters -- National reactions to the exodusters -- The continued search for freedom.
Summary
Discusses the conditions of African Americans in the South before, during, and after the Civil War, and the migration of many former slaves, led by such men as Benjamin Singleton and Henry Adams, to the West looking for a better life.
