Akbar took the policy of religious toleration even further by breaking with conventional Islam. The Emperor proclaimed an entirely new state religion of 'God-ism' (Din-i-ilahi) - a jumble of Islamic, Hindu, Christian and Buddhist teaching with himself as deity. It never spread beyond his court and died when he did.
Created the terms of independence from Britain in The Treaty of Paris.
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There's no answer choices so I'll just say the answer. They wanted to get away from the place populated with the most slave owners where they're most likely going to be captured and sent back. If they were in the north they'd be able to evade slave owners and be a regular citizen.
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They wanted to set up colonies.