Abolitionists challenged stereotypes about African-Americans by:
a. countering the pseudoscientific claim that they formed a separate species.
b. presenting the compositions of Henry Highland Garnet to disprove the belief that African culture was inferior because it produced no classical music composers.
c. pointing to Haiti, the scene of the famous slave revolts of the 1790s and 1800s, as a model of civilization.
d. making January 1, the anniversary of the end of the international slave trade, a holiday throughout the North until the end of the Civil War.
e. nominating Frederick Douglass for president in
Answer: a. countering the pseudoscientific claim that they formed a separate species.
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