Why Were Slaves Sometimes Able to Negotiate New Relationships with Their

question 3

Multiple Choice

Why were slaves sometimes able to negotiate new relationships with their masters during the Revolutionary War?

• A) Food shortages in the North placed a heavier emphasis on southern food production, and southern planters needed the cooperation of their slaves to increase their output.
• B) The need for more soldiers led many southern slaveowners to free their slaves and their families if the slaves agreed to enlist in the Continental Army.
• C) Wartime labor shortages and the British promise of freedom to slaves who agreed to fight for them gave slaves more power to ask for privileges.
• D) The emancipation of slaves in the northern states during the war put added pressure on southern slaveowners to convince their slaves not to run away.

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