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exodusters

exodusters is the plural of exoduster.

Meaning of exoduster

Noun

exoduster (plural exodusters)

  1. (US, also, attributive, historical) An African-American who migrated from a state along the Mississippi River in the Southern United States to Kansas, mostly between 1879 and 1881 during the Reconstruction era.
    • Ingalls [John James Ingalls?] wants congress to appropriate money for the colored exodusters. It strikes us that for a man who is holding on by a strip of his eye-brow, Ingalls is a little too unanimous.1879 April 25, “Georgia in Congress”, in The Daily Constitution, volume XI, number 278, Atlanta, Ga.: Constitution Pub. Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 3

Noun capitalized: Exodusters

Exodusters

  1. (plural) plural of Exoduster (alternative letter-case form of exodusters)

Forms of exodusters

alternative formExodusters

Questions about exodusters

What is exodusters the plural of?
Exodusters is the plural of exoduster.
What part of speech is exodusters?
Exodusters is a noun.

Words near exodusters in the dictionary

  1. exodusing
  2. exodusses
  3. exodust
  4. exodusted
  5. exoduster
  6. exodusters
  7. exodusting
  8. exodusts
  9. exody
  10. exoearth
  11. exoearths

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