Citations:Exoduster

English citations of Exoduster

• 1879 July 17, “An Overlook of Institute Week”, in New-England Journal of Education, volume 10, number 2, page 25:

  Institute-week at the mountains has come and gone, and (in the expressive new word of the reporter from out West) the Exodusters are working out their joint and several styles of salvation according to the gospel of the mammoth excursion.

  [Note: The quote pertains to an educational conference. The religious context appears to be an extended metaphor.]

• 1880, “Proceedings 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 (Report No. 693)”, in Reports of Committees of the Senate of the United States, 1879-80, volume 8, Examination of Julius A. Bonitz, January 30, 1880, page 133:

  Q. Goldshoro is about the center of this movement of the colored people to the West?—A. Yes, sir; a large number of ‘exodusters’ have left my section.