How Did Former Slaves' Ideas About Their Freedom Conflict with the Ideas

question 22

Multiple Choice

How did former slaves' ideas about their freedom conflict with the ideas of their northern allies?

• A) Their northern allies wanted freed blacks to continue working on plantations for white planters, but African Americans did not want to return to plantation life.
• B) Freed blacks wanted to move to the North and begin new lives, but their northern allies felt they needed to stay in the South.
• C) Their northern allies felt that freed blacks should continue with their communal work system, but freed blacks wanted to take part in the piecework system.
• D) Freed blacks wanted to move to new land of their own, while their northern allies felt they should remain on the land where their families had lived for generations.
• E) Freed blacks wanted to continue with a family-based communal work system, but northerners wanted them to become individual wage earners.

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