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The African-Americans tried to escape from the South because the South had slave states. They tried to get to the North because those were free states.
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The North relied heavily on the manufacturing industry while the South was primarily agricultural-based. The North allowed African-Americans to own property and business and be free, while in general the South maintained African-Americans were property and slaves. The North was moving towards a more open meritocracy, while the South still held to some threads of aristocracy.
There were no free African Americans in the south. In the north they were free but still discrimination kept them from expressing themselves and having rights.
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