44.]
[Footnote 45: Davis, _Reconstruction in Florida_, p. 341.]
[Footnote 46: Ficklen, _History of Reconstruction in Louisiana_, p.
118.]
[Footnote 47: Fleming, _The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama_,
p. 271.]
[Footnote 48: Thompson, _Reconstruction in Georgia_, p. 69.]
[Footnote 49: _Ibid._, p. 69.]
[Footnote 50: This exodus became considerable again in 1888 and 1889 and
the Negro population has continued in this direction of plentitude of land
including not only Arkansas and Texas but Louisiana and Oklahoma, all
which received in this way by 1900 about 200,000 Negroes.]
[Footnote 51: _American Journal of Political Economy_, XXII, pp. 10,
40.]
[Footnote 52: _Ibid._, XXV, p. 1038.]
[Footnote 53: Mecklin, _Black Codes_.]
[Footnote 54: Dunning, _Reconstruction_, pp. 54, 59, 110.]
[Footnote 55: DuBois, _Freedmen's Bureau_.]
CHAPTER VII
THE EXODUS TO THE WEST
Having come through the halcyon days of the Reconstruction only to find
themselves reduced almost to the status of slaves, many Negroes deserted
the South for the promising west to grow up with the country. The
immediate causes were doubtless political. _Bulldozing_, a rather
vague term, covering all such crimes as political injustice and
persecution, was the source of most complaint.
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