Exodusters

`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 Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.