Source web Tier B
Exodusters (National Park Service, Homestead National Historical Park)
National Park Service, Homestead National Historical Park, 'Exodusters.'
Custody docket
- Record
- nps-homestead-exodusters
- Type
- web
- Trust tier
- B
- Status
- published
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Carries the 1879 figure THE COUNTED CROWD states: “The 1879 exodus removed approximately 6,000 African-Americans primarily from Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.” The same page says “Thousands of freed blacks made their ways to Kansas throughout the decade of the 1870s” and “The exodus began to subside by the early summer of 1879,” which is why the essay sets the 1879 figure beside the census decade rather than against it.
Provenance
- Creator
- National Park Service
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- External record
- https://www.nps.gov/home/learn/historyculture/exodusters.htm
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