A19 Columbus, Kansas USA 1868

Money plenty, and what you raise commands a good price. Fruits of all kinds easily grown and sold at large profits. Railroads are being built in every direction. The country is well watered. Salt and coal are plentiful. It is within the reach of every man, no matter how poor, to have a home in Kansas.

— George F. Marlow in “US Senate report by the Select Committee on Negro Exodus,” 1880

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