The British policy toward slavery during the revolution
a. kept blacks in bondage to work as laborers for the British military.
b. envisioned blacks as an important supply of soldiers.
c. offered freedom to slaves who left their masters in the hope of disrupting colonial farming operations.
d. required compensation for slaveowners whose slaves escaped.
ANSWER: c
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