Which of the Following Messages Do the Excerpts from the "Petitions

question 95

Multiple Choice

Which of the following messages do the excerpts from the "Petitions of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature" (1773-1777) suggest?

• A) that, if not granted freedom, slaves would immediately rebel and violently fight for their ability to form their own nation
• B) that the horrors of the Revolution led slaves to reject all the ideas that the new nation represented
• C) that owning slaves and professing the ideas of Christianity and the Revolution are contradictory
• D) that, because slaves were not citizens, they lacked any natural or unalienable rights in common with whites
• E) that the persistence of slavery was inexorably leading the new nation toward a civil war between North and South

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