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Some even migrated as far as South Africa, while other Huguenot families began the journey to cross the Atlantic to the newly open Americas. All totaled, it is estimated that more than 160,000 Huguenots escaped from France. In America, the Huguenots used their skills, energy and ingenuity to help colonize the Eastern seaboard.
Even when the Edict of Nantes of 1598 attempted to relieve Huguenot persecution by allowing them freedom to worship, their civil and religious difficulties continued. By 1685, King Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes threatening to kill anyone who did not agree with his beliefs. Relief for the French Huguenots did not come until November 28, 1787, when Louis XVI and the French Council adopted the Edict of Toleration, guaranteeing religious freedom to all in France. However, by then, the Huguenots, a very skilled group in the commercial and industrial sectors, had already fled to more tolerant European countries, such as Holland, England, Switzerland and Germany.