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Why did so many African Americans go north ?

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Step-by-step explanation:

To get away from the south because of how much slave labor was happening

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Sharecropping, agricultural depression, the widespread infestation of the boll weevil, and flooding also provided motives for African Americans to move into the Northern Cities. The lack of social opportunities from Jim Crow laws also motivated African Americans to migrate Northward.
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