What Uncomfortable Truth That Many Southerners Would Have Preferred to Ignore

question 60

Multiple Choice

What uncomfortable truth that many Southerners would have preferred to ignore was demonstrated by Nat Turner's revolt?

• A) Only force kept African Americans enslaved.
• B) Most Southerners were secretly opposed to slavery.
• C) Unless slaves were Christianized, they would continue to rebel.
• D) The greatest threat to slavery came from free blacks.

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