Which of the following is true of the American response to Toussaint L’Ouverture’s slave uprising?
a. Most enslaved Americans opposed L’Ouverture’s success because they believed it might inspire a white crackdown on their behavior.
b. Thomas Jefferson welcomed Haitian independence as another example of what he had advocated in the Declaration of Independence.
c. Many white Americans considered L’Ouverture’s uprising to be evidence of blacks’ unfitness for republican freedom.
d. John Adams opposed it because it was a threat to the established order.
e. Most white Americans were glad to see France, which had turned politically radical, suffer the loss of Haiti.
Ans: c. Many white Americans considered L’Ouverture’s uprising to be evidence of blacks’ unfitness for republican freedom.
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