All of the following represented consequences of the Revolutionary War on African Americans EXCEPT:
a. former slaves who served in the British army leaving America to seek a better life in Canada, England, British Florida, and the Caribbean.
b. plantation owners in the Lower South reassessing their reliance on slave labor and reducing their coercive control over African American slaves on their plantations.
c. slaves escaping from disrupted farms and plantations to reside in northern cities, where they passed as free people.
d. the development of political emancipation campaigns after the war in northern states such as Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
b. plantation owners in the Lower South reassessing their reliance on slave labor and reducing their coercive control over African American slaves on
Answer: b. plantation owners in the Lower South reassessing their reliance on slave labor and reducing their coercive control over African American slaves on their plantations.
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