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The Exodusters were black African Americans who formed their own independent communities in the west because they believed the west would prove their promise land. Kansas seemed like the "ideal" place for blacks because that is where the sought peace unlike the south where there was the cruelty of the black codes, the cruelness of the sharecroppers and the Klu Klux Klan.

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Most of the Exodusters were farmers. They moved to the west in droves after the Civil War to seek a better life and freedom.

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