Complex sentence: Most of them were free blacks and mixed race people from North Carolina and Virginia who migrated west due to more oppressive government acts against free blacks following Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831 and settled in the unclaimed government lands in northwest Rush County, Indiana.
Split into simpler sentences: Most of them were free blacks and mixed race people from North Carolina and Virginia who migrated west due to more oppressive government acts against free blacks following Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831. They settled in the unclaimed government lands in northwest Rush County, Indiana.