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The Speech at the Ceremony of the Proclamation of the Congo's Independence was a short ... Lumumba, the first Congolese Prime Minister, gave the address during the official ... King Baudouin, representing Belgium, gave the first speech in which he praised the "genius" of his ancestor, King Leopold II
I believe it means back when slavery was around most of the African Americans were in the South and most of them tried to escape but couldn’t. So therefore it’s sayin that since they left and when the civil war ended and all that and when slavery was abolished the South was their home now, and so that’s why today African Americans live mostly in the South.