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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, also, attributive, historical
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Broader terms: exodist
noun
Alternative letter-case form of exoduster.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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History
From Exodus (“departure of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt recorded in the Bible”), exodus (“sudden departure of a large number of people”) + -ster (suffix denoting someone who is, is associated with, or does a specified thing) (see the 1899 quotation), alluding to the story of the exodus of Israelites from Egypt which is related in the Book of Exodus in the Bible.
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