Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town: Based on the History of the African American Pioneer Settlement Mormonism Libbie Hickman

Libbie Hickman

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Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town: Based on the History of the African American Pioneer Settlement Mormonism Libbie HickmanWhen Dede sees a notice offering land to black people in Kansas, her family decides to give up their life of sharecropping to become homesteading pioneers in the Midwest. Inspired by the true story of Nicodemus, Kansas, a town founded in the late 1870s by Exodustersformer slaves leaving the Jim Crow South in search of a new beginningthis fictional story follows Dede and her parents as they set out to stake and secure a claim, finally allowing them to