Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction

by Nell Irvin Painter

Overview

"The first full-length scholarly study of this migration and of the forces that produced it."—David H. Donald, New York Times Book Review

The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393352511
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	06/08/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	318
Sales rank:	742,144
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Nell Irvin Painter is the award-winning author of many books, including Standing at Armageddon and The History of White People. She is the Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University and lives in East Orange, New Jersey, and the Adirondacks.

Editorial Reviews

"What makes this book so important is…[that it] is the first full-length scholarly study of this migration and of the forces that produced it.…Most previous students have focused on nationally recognized black leaders; [Painter] calls for attention to the black masses."

David H. Donald

"A genuine folk movement, the Exoduster migration has…been undeservedly ignored. Nell Irvin Painter has produced a book which rescues the Exodusters from obscurity and demonstrates her considerable talents as a researcher and writer."

American Historical Review

"In 1879, fourteen years after the Emancipation Proclamation, thousands of blacks fled the South. They were headed for the homesteading lands of Kansas, the 'Garden Spot of the Earth' and the 'quintessential Free State, the land of John Brown'.…Painter examines their exodus in fascinating detail. In the process, she offers a compelling portrait of the post-Reconstruction South and the desperate efforts by blacks and whites in that chaotic period to 'solve the race problem' once and for all."

Newsweek

A genuine folk movement, the Exoduster migration has . . . been undeservedly ignored. Nell Irvin Painter has produced a book which rescues the Exodusters from obscurity and demonstrates her considerable talents as a researcher and writer.-- "American Historical Review"

What makes this book so important is . . . [that it] is the first full-length scholarly study of this migration and of the forces that produced it. . . . Most previous students have focused on nationally recognized black leaders; [Painter] calls for attention to the black masses.--David H. Donald "New York Times Book Review"

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