What Radical Idea About Blacks Did Thomas Wentworth Higginson Have

question 15

Multiple Choice

What radical idea about blacks did Thomas Wentworth Higginson have as commander of the First South Carolina Volunteers?

• A) He wanted to destroy the black race by killing them.
• B) He thought that blacks should be sent to Africa, rather than stay in the United States.
• C) He not only wanted to abolish slavery, but to show that blacks and whites were equal.
• D) Higginson was very conservative, not radical, in his ideas about blacks.

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