After the Civil War: African Americans in Kansas
Monday, December 5th, 201120,000 freed slaves (known as Exodusters) flowed into Kansas between 1879 & 1880. John Brown & his fiery abolitionist friends and the anti-slavery Civil War reputation of “Bleeding Kansas” made it seem a fair place where freed men & women and their families would be welcome. Spend a day on the Wetlands & Wildlife National Scenic Byway as you trace the Exoduster migration & settlement in Barton & Stafford Counties.