What Is True of African Americans During the American Revolution

question 114

Multiple Choice

What is true of African Americans during the American Revolution?

• A) Free blacks were permitted to join the colonial army; enslaved blacks were barred from military service throughout the war.
• B) Britain rejected black recruits as members of their army.
• C) All of the slaves who fled to aid the British were re-enslaved after the war.
• D) Thousands of blacks, mostly from the North, enlisted to fight the British.
• E) They were among the first men drafted into military service.

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