Why did african americans move west to the great plains?

There has, for quite some time, been a significant African American nearness in the Great Plains. African Americans were there in the early long periods of investigation, through the contentions over bondage in Kansas, on the steers’ drives, and in the praised dark wilderness regiments.

African Americans were not having a significant nearness in the Great Plains until after the finish of Reconstruction in 1877, yet that doesn't mean they assumed an irrelevant job informing the early history of the area.

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