In Search of Canaan : Black Migration to Kansas, 1879-80, Paperback
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In Search of Canaan : Black Migration to Kansas, 1879-80, Paperback by Athearn, Robert G., ISBN 0700631364, ISBN-13 9780700631360, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Word spread across the southern farm country, and into the minds of those who labored over cotton or sugar crops, that the day of reckoning was near at hand, that the Lord had answered black prayers with the offer of deliverance in a western Eden. In this vast state where Brown had caused blood to flow in his righteous wrath, there was said to be land for all, and land especially for poor blacks who for so long had cherished the thought of a tiny patch of America that they could call their own. The soil was said to be free for the taking, and even better, passage to the prairie Canaan was rumored to be available to all. . . . Thus began a pell-mell land rush to Kansas, an unreasoned, almost mindless exodus from the South toward some vague ideal, some western paradise, where all cares would vanish. In Search of Canaan tells the story of the Black migration from areas of the South to Kansas and other Midwestern and Western states that occurred soon after the end of Reconstruction. Working almost entirely from primary sources—letters of some of the black migrants, government investigative reports, and black newspapers—Robert G. Athearn describes and explains the “Exoduster” movement and sets it into perspective as a phenomenon in Western history. Th begins with details of Exodusters on the move. Athearn then fil
- Publisher: University Press of Kansas
- Year: 1879
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780700631360
- Condition: Fine
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