Black Pioneers Many emigrants came West in the 1840s and 1850s because of increasing political and social tensions over slavery issues. In an effort to avoid the same problems in the West, laws were passed to keep slaves and free descendents of slaves from settling in the Oregon Country. Still, a trickle of black emigrants settled in the West. One early black pioneer, Elvina Moulton, came to Boise in the 1860s. She walked the trail and when she arrived in Boise refused to walk any further. She made a living taking in laundry and was a charter member of Boise's First Presbyterian Church.
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