Why was the 1807 federal slavery law unsatisfying for everyone?
A) On the one hand, slave owners felt it threatened their livelihood, but on the other hand, abolitionists felt it did little to end slavery.
B) It did nothing to affect slavery or the slave trade in the United States and only frustrated relations with European allies.
C) On the one hand, it appeased antislavery European allies, but on the other hand, it frustrated U.S. slave owners.
D) It granted African Americans only freedom, not any voting or civil rights, while at the same time infuriating their slave owners.
E) It appeased southern slave owners but infuriated northern abolitionists.
Answer: A
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