All of the Following Are True Statements About Free Blacks

question 24

Multiple Choice

All of the following are true statements about free blacks EXCEPT

• A) they were banned from entering several northern states.
• B) they were always vulnerable to being hijacked back into slavery in the South.
• C) slaveholders feared that they were living examples of what might be achieved with emancipation.
• D) in the North, they forged ties with the Irish, who similarly worked in menial jobs.
• E) most states denied them the right to vote.

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