History of South America

Why did former slaves move south?

This statement is inaccurate, the vast majority of African American's who were formerly enslaved did not move south after emancipation. During reconstruction and afterwards many Black Americans had migrated north out of the south primarily as an escape from discriminatory racial attitudes, segregation, economic exploitation, poll taxes, lynching, sharecropping, crop liens, peonage, convict leasing, black codes, and other restrictions intended to restrict their rights and liberties.