| Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction Contributor(s): Painter, Nell Irvin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393009513 ISBN-13: 9780393009514 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $22.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1992 Annotation: '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 |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - History | United States - 20th Century - History | African American |
| Dewey: 978.100 |
| LCCN: 79020277 |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5.52" W x 8.24" (0.82 lbs) 318 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Kansas - Cultural Region - Heartland - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest |
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Contributor Bio(s): Painter, Nell Irvin: - Nell Irvin Painter is the award-winning author of many books, including Sojourner Truth, Southern History Across the Color Line, Creating Black Americans, The History of White People, and Standing at Armageddon. She is currently the Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University and lives in Newark, New Jersey, and the Adirondacks. |