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What was one reason freed slaves migrated to western territories?

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its free land under the homestead act on apex

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Freed slaves or the enslaved negroes/black farmers migrated to western territories because the west was new and the United States Agrarian Reform had promised them a free land which is forty (40) acres and a mule under the Homestead Act of 1862.
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