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This census schedule provides details--including the name, age, race, and occupation--of both white and black settlers in Nicodemus Township in Graham County, Kansas. This township had been settled by African Americans in 1877 along the south fork of the Solomon River.
Creator: United States. Census Office. 10th census, 1880
Date: June 8, 1880 through June 23, 1880
This could work with a variety of documents by providing statistical evidence of Exodusters in Kansas, but it would be most useful within discussion about the Nicodemus colony more specifically.
KS:7th:3.5:Exodusters (2005)
Item Number: 210689
Call Number: Microfilm: K11
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 210689
Agriculture - Family farming
Agriculture - Labor - Farmers
Agriculture - Labor - Hired hands
Agriculture - Labor - Ranchers
Agriculture - Labor - Women
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Blacksmiths
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Cooks
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Farmers
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Masons
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Restaurant workers
Collections - Library
Community Life - Town development - Town companies - Nicodemus Town Company
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1860s to 1870s (Benchmark 3) - Exodusters (Indicator 5) - Emigrants' daily life in Kansas
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1860s to 1870s (Benchmark 3) - Exodusters (Indicator 5) - Exoduster settlements
Date - 1880s - 1880
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Census
People - African Americans
Places - Cities and towns - Nicodemus
Places - Counties - Graham
Places - Other States - Kentucky
Places - Other States - Tennessee
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Censuses
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/210689
