For African Americans, emancipation meant
a. the ability to legalize "slave marriages.".
b. the right to claim forty acres and a mule from their former masters' land.
c. the opportunity to take over the white churches they had been forced to attend.
d. the right to sue their former masters for back wages.
e. the right to form political parties.
a
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A) ?? especially adept at farming. B) ?? likely to marry early. C) ?? more likely to enter the work force. D) ?? more likely to keep their daughters out of the work force. E) ?? None of these choices