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Nicodemus Kansas is the last all-Black frontier town, which was founded to evade the hardships of reconstruction in Kentucky and Tennessee.
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The last all Black town in the West
Wagon wheel impressions still mark the earth of the western Kansas prairie, where, beginning in 1877, Black former slaves journeyed across the plains. Those ruts, a physical reminder of the former slaves’ brave and challenging escape from new post-Reconstruction oppressions in the American South, and their dreams of true independence, self-determination and self-governance. But wagon […] The post The last all Black town in the West appeared first on Daily Montanan.
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