A photograph of Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, 1880.

A native of Tennessee, Benjamin “Pap” Singleton was born enslaved in 1809 and became one of the leading promoters of black migration to Kansas in the 1870s. Singleton organized black settlements in Cherokee and Morris Counties in Kansas.

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Leonard & Martin, Photographers, “Benjamin ‘Pap’ Singleton,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/cc6902ffedaf2fd3a5b9387c6f497ccc.
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