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Read Kansas!By the Kansas Historical Society
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Evidence Card 6
Family picking cotton in fields near Savannah, Georgia, circa 1867.
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In 1880 a U.S. Senate select committee held a hearing to investigate the causes of the exodus. Ten African American men and one woman provided sworn affidavits of events they experienced while living in Louisiana.
