What Did the Execution of Nat Turner and His Followers

question 38

Multiple Choice

What did the execution of Nat Turner and his followers in 1831 signal to African Americans?

• A) That only free blacks should organize against slavery
• B) How far whites would go to protect slavery
• C) That whites were right and Nat Turner was wrong
• D) That the American justice system was fair

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