Read the excerpt from an 1845 Greensboro newspaper article. On last Tuesday morning nineteen carts, with about one hundred persons, passed this place, from Wake County, on their way to the West.

What is this excerpt describing?

mass migration out of North Carolina
mass migration into North Carolina
the improvement of infrastructure in western North Carolina
the improvement of infrastructure in eastern North Carolina

mass migrating out of North carolina

Explanation:

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the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.