All throughout the north, black people are on high alert because slave catchers are out sort of like ICE, snatching people off the street, picking them up, throwing them in jail, throwing them in these holding pens, sending them back to slavery. Even if you were born in freedom, you felt like your life was at risk.
So they left the US in search of another slave society where they could continue their way of life with white supremacy as the social order and slavery as the economic system.
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