Useful Links
Primary Sources
Exodusters: African American Migration to the Great Plains
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/exodusters-african-american-migration-to-the-great-plains
An 1875 newspaper article inviting Tennessee’s African American residents to participate in a state convention about migration to Kansas
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/exodusters-african-american-migration-to-the-great-plains/sources/1660
the Exodusters and black towns (map)
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/870c7775-444d-2f2a-e040-e00a18062316
primary source set
https://sitesed.cde.state.co.us/pluginfile.php/61348/mod_book/chapter/9818/ExodusterSourcesComplete.pdf?time=1622137303234
A Sharecropper Explains Why He Joined the Exodusters (1879)
https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/967
Black "Exodusters" Explain their Reasons for Leaving the South
https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/682
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/exodusters-african-american-migration-to-the-great-plains
An 1875 newspaper article inviting Tennessee’s African American residents to participate in a state convention about migration to Kansas
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/exodusters-african-american-migration-to-the-great-plains/sources/1660
the Exodusters and black towns (map)
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/870c7775-444d-2f2a-e040-e00a18062316
primary source set
https://sitesed.cde.state.co.us/pluginfile.php/61348/mod_book/chapter/9818/ExodusterSourcesComplete.pdf?time=1622137303234
A Sharecropper Explains Why He Joined the Exodusters (1879)
https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/967
Black "Exodusters" Explain their Reasons for Leaving the South
https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/682
Lessons
Fully describe the activity or assignment in detail. What will both the teacher and the students do?
Beginning in the late 1870’s, as Reconstruction was coming to its conclusion in the South, a "stampede of colored people" moved out, many of them to Kansas. By the 1880’s, several thousand African Americans had left their homes in the Southern United States for a new beginning in Kansas. The teacher will assign background reading and pictures to be analyzed.
The students will analyze and explain the feelings evoked in each image. Using the broadside from 1877, the students will answer the following: 1) What was the cost to join the colony? 2) How do African Americans refer to themselves? Why? 3) What is a militia and why would these people need one?
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/lesson-plans/exodusters-kansas
Beginning in the late 1870’s, as Reconstruction was coming to its conclusion in the South, a "stampede of colored people" moved out, many of them to Kansas. By the 1880’s, several thousand African Americans had left their homes in the Southern United States for a new beginning in Kansas. The teacher will assign background reading and pictures to be analyzed.
The students will analyze and explain the feelings evoked in each image. Using the broadside from 1877, the students will answer the following: 1) What was the cost to join the colony? 2) How do African Americans refer to themselves? Why? 3) What is a militia and why would these people need one?
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/lesson-plans/exodusters-kansas
Benjamin 'Pap' Singleton
Primary Sources:
TESTIMONY OF BENJAMIN SINGLETON Washington, D. C., April 17, 1880 before the Senate Select Committee Investigating
the "Negro Exodus from the Southern States"
http://www.shoppbs.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/seven/w67singl.htm
Report and Testimony of the Select Committee of the United States Senate to Investigate the Causes of the Removal of the Negroes from the Southern States to the Northern States, Part III
https://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15138coll18/id/1127
Exodusters: African American Migration to the Great Plains
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/exodusters-african-american-migration-to-the-great-plains
TESTIMONY OF BENJAMIN SINGLETON Washington, D. C., April 17, 1880 before the Senate Select Committee Investigating
the "Negro Exodus from the Southern States"
http://www.shoppbs.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/seven/w67singl.htm
Report and Testimony of the Select Committee of the United States Senate to Investigate the Causes of the Removal of the Negroes from the Southern States to the Northern States, Part III
https://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15138coll18/id/1127
Exodusters: African American Migration to the Great Plains
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/exodusters-african-american-migration-to-the-great-plains
Useful Links
Biographies http://www.shoppbs.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/singleton.htm https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/singleton-benjamin-pap-1809-1892/ https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/benjamin-pap-singleton/12205 Reeves, Matthew. "Singleton, Benjamin “Pap”" Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865. The Kansas City Public Library. https://civilwaronthewesternborder.org/encyclopedia/singleton-benjamin-% |