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What nickname was given to the many free blacks who left the south to settle en masse in kansas?

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Free blacks who left the South to escape both the persecution following the Civil War, in the 1870s, were known as Exodusters. They left at first to settle in Cherokee territory and eventually settled in Scott County, the first "colony" being Nicodemus.
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