Exoduster

Exoduster (plural Exodusters)

1. Alternative letter-case form of exoduster.
   • 1899, Noble L[ovely] Prentis, “The Centennial Year”, in A History of Kansas, Topeka, Kan.: Caroline Prentis, →OCLC, paragraphs 234–235, page 153:

     In the spring of 1879 occurred the rush from the South, to which was given the name of the "Exodus," and the "Exoduster" for a time became a prominent figure in Kansas. Great numbers of black people, men, women, and children, arrived by rail at Parsons, from Texas, and on steamboats at Wyandotte and Atchison. The later comers represented the ex-slave population of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. […] In the late fall of 1877, "Exodusters" gathered from Topeka and other points, and founded the town of Nicodemus, in Graham county.

   • 2004 August, Andrew J. Wagenhoffer, “Briefings: Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era by Nicole Etcheson (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2004. Pp. 327, $35.00, hardback, map, notes, photos, illustrations. →ISBN). [book review]”, in Keith Poulter, editor, North & South, volume 7, number 5, Tollhouse, Calif.: North & South Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 93, column 1:

     Etcheson has written a remarkably thorough social and political history of the Kansas conflict, from the debates over the Kansas-Nebraska Act to the Exoduster migration in the decades after the war.

   • 2017, James Oakes [et al.], “Reconstructing a Nation, 1865–1877”, in Of the People: A History of the United States with Sources, 3rd edition, volume 2 (Since 1865), New York, N.Y.; Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 497:

     Hoping to escape poverty and discrimination, some former slaves moved west. One group, the Exodusters, moved to the Kansas prairie during the mid-1870s. […] Like white farmers, the Exodusters fought with cattlemen.