-What Does This Image of African American Abolitionists Killing a Maryland

question 47

Multiple Choice

-What does this image of African American abolitionists killing a Maryland slaveholder searching for his runaway slave in Christiana, Pennsylvania, and the case of Shadrach Minkins, a runaway who was physically removed from his court hearing in Boston by abolitionists, reveal about abolitionists' attitudes toward the Fugitive Slave Act?

• A) Abolitionists were willing to cooperate with slaveholders and return their property.
• B) Abolitionists turned to religion to convince the public to resist this law.
• C) Abolitionists were willing to break laws to resist the Fugitive Slave Act.
• D) Abolitionists adhered to "personal liberty laws" that prohibited Northern state and local courts from trying cases of runaway slaves.

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