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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Negro Exodus

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Ashley Wilson
Prof. Christian Parker
HistB17B
17 June 2023
Negro Exodus from the Southern States (1880)
Benjamin Singleton, an enthusiastic promoter of black migration to the west, claimed that so much African American migration to Kansas was occuring due to need to escape the oppression of the South and to gain land for themselves. He states that African Americans were constantly faced disadvantages, such as the several social inequalities and injustices, which were resulting in the downfall of the African American race itself (Shi and Mayer 48). Life in the South also had still remained very dangerous for all African Americans due to the constant racial violence that had persisted. Singleton enticed people to make such a treacherous journey
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