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Exodusters

The Exodusters were a group of freed slaves who moved West because it was free land if they stayed there for 5 or more years and farmed the land. The Exodusters would pack up their belongings and hope that Indians didn't kill them when they got to their land. Free slaves had nothing to begin with so they would move West because the land was free and they didn't have anything to lose so they would gain more from going out West than staying in the polluted East part of the country.

McDougal, Holt. The Americans 2012. 1 of 1 ed. EPub: n.p., 2012. Print.

Carey, Bill. "Former slave born in Nashville was leader in Exoduster movement."

The Tennessee Magazine. Bill Carey, Sept. 2013. Web. 1 Oct. 2015.

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