Randolph County AlArchives News.....The Kansas Exodus  July 31, 1879
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Russell Register July 31, 1879
The Roanoke News says: 
It is reported that many negroes in this county have almost entirely abandoned 
their crops and are wild over the exodus move. It is estimated that the county 
has been injured several thousand dollars by the leaders of this foolishness, 
and they ought to be made to pay the damage!

Montgomery Alabama Jan 13, 1880: 
A few days before the cold snap in Christmas we noticed at the depot a 
collection of strange negroes, and upon inquiry learned they were from Randolph 
County and bound for Kansas. There were said to be over a hundred in the party; 
we did not think there were so many. They were thinly clad, very dirty, and in 
their ragged cotton clothing and fragments of old cotton quilts, seemed illy 
prepared to encounter the rigors of a Kansas winter, poor creatures; they will 
have their first experience of cold weather, and will miss their log cabins and 
pine knot fires. The party that left here was composed largely of women and 
children, and unless supplied with an outfit of clothing by someone and provided 
with food, will hardly return from their foolish exodus. 

Additional Comments:
Nov 18, 1880: 
The Cotton, a journal published at New York, has this: A Quaker lady from 
Kansas, who has been in New York this week soliciting aid for the Southern 
negroes who migrated to that State, places the number at 50,000. According to 
her account, very few of them seem to have obtained work of the kind to which 
they have been accustomed. Only one third of the number have obtained work of 
any kind, and of these by far the greater number are employed in the coal mines 
and stone quarries, and on public buildings only a very small fraction having 
been employed by farmers. She describes the remaining two-thirds as being in an 
exceedingly destitute and suffering condition. These facts, coming from one who 
is identified with the movement, ought to be spread broadcast throughout the 
Southwest.

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