Characterize the response of enslaved Africans to the colonial rhetoric of freedom
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
Answer: The ideal answer should:
a. Explain that slaves were torn between the colonists, who espoused liberty, and the British, who offered protection from slaveholding patriots.
b. Note that Africans seized upon colonial rhetoric to attempt more rebellions than ever before.
c. Describe how, following the war, blacks seeking abolition at the state level and through the Constitutional Convention employed the rhetoric of the American Revolution.
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