Ultimately, the excitement of 1879–80 yielded relatively few migrants. Those going to Liberia numbered in the hundreds. The migrants to Kansas, who became known as the Exodusters, amounted to perhaps 20,000 to 25,000 people. The same conditions that created the desire to migrate inhibited actual migration. Poverty constrained the movement of poor black families, just as it limited the movement of the very poor in Europe and poor white families in the United States.
