Addressed to former Kansas Governor, Dr. Charles L. Robinson, Lawrence, Kansas from Amos A. Lawrence, discusses the Negro exodus out of the South and the designs of schemes to promote it, and conversely, to halt it. Mentions the use of a steamboat up the Mississippi to ferry African Americans out of the South following Reconstruction, and wants to know if Kansas has any jobs for these migrants. Mentions Mass. Governor Thomas Talbot, General Conway, and Rev. Henry McNeal Turner, June 9, 1879, Folder: Oversize 1, item: 5. Personal Papers of Frank Blackmar, PP 53. University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library. https://archives.lib.ku.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/252833 Accessed May 24, 2024.