Why was Florida known as a “slave sanctuary”?
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
Answer: The ideal response should:
a. Indicate that the laws of Spanish Florida made manumission and racial mixing more likely.
b. Describe how tensions between England and Spain created the opportunity for slaves to take advantage of conflict between the European powers.
c. Explain that Africans managed to collaborate with the Spanish and Native Americans to work together against slave masters.
d. Discuss how over time Florida developed a sizable population of escaped slaves, mixed race people, and Spanish colonials hostile to the English.
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A) Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver. B) Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton. C) Roy Wilkins and Thurgood Marshall. D) Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown.
The brief rule of Wang Mang illustrated what development of the Han dynasty?
A) repeated invasions B) economic decline C) palace factions D) a Qin resurgence
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A) Filipinos. B) Chinese immigrants. C) illegal Mexican immigrants. D) Puerto Ricans.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)