they wanted to move to the south
Slaves were kept in the West Indies to grow and harvest sugar and molesses.
the gold rush. the majority of them wanted their share of the fortune being made in california
The slaves that West African slave traders sold to Europeans were usually captured in war.
In West African cultures, slaves were allowed to own slaves of their own, while those in the Atlantic slave trade were not.
false they moved east
Many former slaves moved west in the 1800s. Northerner's feared freed slaves would take their jobs. They did not want to stay in the hostile South.
The African nation founded by former American slaves was Liberia.
The Republic of Liberia is the only country in West Africa that was founded for freed slaves. Sierra Leone began offering shelter to former slaves in 1792, but the country was not founded for freed slaves.
13,1,15 amendment, emancipation proclamation, civil war, abolitionist's work, (frederic Douglass, harriet Tubman, sojourner truth, William loyd garrison... etc)
Many former slaves knew how to be good farmers. They had worked as plantation slaves for decades. There were opportunities in the Western frontiers to establish new lives and earn a living by farming. This also allowed them to escape from the white terrorist groups of the post-war South.
they wanted to move to the south
They fled to the South and to the West because of racism and the search for new industrial jobs.
uysless grant the civil war general of the union
North was against making slaves states in the west South wanted to make slave states in the west
no
because they went west after slavery was abolished after the american civil war in 1865.