An excerpt from Benjamin Singleton’s testimony before Congress, 1880.

After the sudden wave of African American migration from the South to Kansas in 1879, the US Senate appointed a committee of five senators to investigate the cause of the migration. The committee interviewed over 150 people, including Benjamin Singleton, who describes his role in the Exoduster Movement and his reasoning for promoting migration away from the South in this excerpt from his testimony.

Citation Information
Excerpt from “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,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/414c019cb476c51e42a5a1cf6b3c1bbb.
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Courtesy of Tennessee State Library and Archives via Digital Library of Tennessee.

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