| Most conventional discussions of the Exodusters focus on the dismal conditions and subjugation that prompted a mass movement. |
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| The Exodusters moved to the black enclaves of the cities or settled in the countryside, mainly as subsistence farmers. |
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| Maybe we should send a letter to the new governor telling him to send some of those Exodusters out here to Nicodemus. |
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| The pioneer Exodusters had suffered from the drastic change in climate, most of all because it affected their livelihoods in farming. |
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| Many Exodusters faced their new lives with admirable determination, but these and earlier migrants also encountered racial discrimination and wary western residents. |
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