Good Morning POU! "When I landed on the soil of Kansas I looked on the ground and I says this is free ground. Then I looked on the heavens and I says them is free and beautiful heavens. Then I looked within my heart and I says to myself, I wonder why I was never free before?" - former slave John Solomon Lewis The Exodus of 1879 The great 1879 exodus of … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: The History of the Exodusters
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Tuesday Open Thread: The History of the Exodusters
Good Morning POU! We continue to look at the Exodusters Movement. Today, what led to former slaves moving to the southwest at such a great pace and why the southwest, particularly, Kansas? Benjamin Singleton, and S.A. McClure, Leaders of the Exodus, leaving Nashville, Tennessee with former slaves. Conditions in the Post-War South The post-Civil War era should … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: The History of the Exodusters
Monday Open Thread: The History of the Exodusters
Good Morning POU! This week we will explore the history and significance of The Exodusters Movement. Exodusters waiting for a steamboat to carry them westward in the late 1870's. Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to primarily Kansas, as well as other surrounding states in the late nineteenth century, … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: The History of the Exodusters
Monday Evening Thread: Robert Elliott Brown’s Speech
Good Evening POU! On this day in 1874, Congressman Robert Brown Elliot delivered one of the most eloquent speeches of the times in defense of Charles Sumner's civil rights bill. Elliot's hour-long speech began: 'I regred, sir, the dark hue of my skin may lend color to the imputation that I am controlled by motives personal to myself in advocacy of this great measure of … [Read more...] about Monday Evening Thread: Robert Elliott Brown’s Speech