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The majority of the founders were spanish speaking black settlers
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Slavery is abolished in Mexico and many african americans go to what was then Mexican-Texas for more freedom
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The convention discusses moving to West Africa but then decides it would be better to move to Mexican-Texas *Philadelphia
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Texas revolutionaries take over Texas and turn it into a large slaveholding empire
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Many African Americans moved west for greater opportunities
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allowed people to move west and improve the land regardless of race
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Founded as a good place for black settlers
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Town founded as a self-governing agricultural black community
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A city created to be a safe place where African Americans can escape segregation and lynch law
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Popular all black town in the west
