No one was sure what became of America’s black Moses after he sought to lead his people to the promised land. Historians could recite virtually every other pertinent detail of Benjamin “Pap” Singleton ...

Entz did his master’s dissertation on Benjamin “Pap” Singleton and has written articles on the man he called the “Father of the Kansas Exodus.” Singleton’s effort in Southeast Kansas actually preceded ...

DUNLAP — Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, who was born a slave in 1809 in Nashville, Tenn., considered himself a latter-day Moses. According to the Kansapedia encyclopedia of Kansas history published by the ...