All materials on Kansas Memory are made available for noncommercial educational and research purposes only. It is the patron's responsibility to request and obtain permission from both the image and copyright owner(s) to use materials.
This photograph depicts a steamboat containing Exodusters in Nashville, Tennessee, with Benjamin "Pap" Singleton and S. A. McClure superimposed in the foreground. Singleton, known as the "Father of the Exodus," organized the Tennessee Real Estate and Homestead Association to facilitate black emigration out of the South. His town company founded the Dunlap Colony in Morris County, and a short-lived settlement in Cherokee County, Kansas. His widespread use of advertisements encouraged thousands of former slaves to emigrate to Kansas. McClure was one of his associates and another advocate of emigration.
This photograph can be grouped with the other images and documents relating to "Pap" Singleton. It can also be used as an introduction to black emigration, emphasizing the large number of former slaves eager to leave the Jim Crow South.
Item Number: 622
Call Number: E185 .1876 *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 622
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Town development - Town companies - Tennessee Real Estate and Homestead Association
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1860s to 1870s (Benchmark 3) - Exodusters (Indicator 5) - Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1860s to 1870s (Benchmark 3) - Exodusters (Indicator 5) - Emigrant aid organizations
Date - 1870s - 1876
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - African Americans - Exodusters
People - Notable Kansans - Singleton, Benjamin, 1809-1900
Places - Other States - Tennessee
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Water - Steamboats
Type of Material - Photographs