Nell Irvin Painter is the award-winning author of many books, including Standing at Armageddon and The History of White People. She is the Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University and lives in East Orange, New Jersey, and the Adirondacks.
"What makes this book so important is…[that it] is the first
full-length scholarly study of this migration and of the forces
that produced it.…Most previous students have focused on nationally
recognized black leaders; [Painter] calls for attention to the
black masses."
*David H. Donald - New York Times Book Review*
"A genuine folk movement, the Exoduster migration has…been
undeservedly ignored. Nell Irvin Painter has produced a book which
rescues the Exodusters from obscurity and demonstrates her
considerable talents as a researcher and writer."
*American Historical Review*
"In 1879, fourteen years after the Emancipation Proclamation,
thousands of blacks fled the South. They were headed for the
homesteading lands of Kansas, the 'Garden Spot of the Earth' and
the 'quintessential Free State, the land of John Brown'.…Painter
examines their exodus in fascinating detail. In the process, she
offers a compelling portrait of the post-Reconstruction South and
the desperate efforts by blacks and whites in that chaotic period
to 'solve the race problem' once and for all."
*Newsweek*
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