Which of the following statements about free blacks in antebellum Boston is LEAST accurate?
a. By the late antebellum period, residential segregation had begun to concentrate members of the city’s black community more densely.
b. The development of a strong abolitionist movement in the city resulted from and contributed to Boston having the North’s largest free black urban community by 1850.
c. A small elite of middle-class professionals represented the upper class of the black community and contributed to an ongoing tradition of activism and protest.
d. Although both men and women worked as domestics for white families, black men were more likely than black women to be able to obtain personal prestige from their employer’s status.
b. The development of a strong abolitionist movement in the city resulted from and contributed to Boston having the North’s largest free black urban community by 1850.
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