| Estimates of the total number who joined the Exoduster migration of 1877 to 1881 hover around fifty thousand, though that figure may be low. |
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| Poor, homeless, trustful, the Exoduster displayed the traits of his race in unfailing cheerfulness and childlike trust in Providence.
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| Households of Exoduster migrants camped on the levees of the Mississippi River and waited for steamboats to pick them up. |
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| Douglass's opposition to the Exoduster migration represented an instance where he stood virtually alone among black leaders who typically supported it. |
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| Underlying fears and prejudices were revealed in 1879, when a group of blacks coming out of the South during the Exoduster migrations of that year were denied residence in Wichita. |
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