All of the following illustrated how the issue of freedom and liberty was gaining ground for slaves in North America after 1776 EXCEPT
A) word spread throughout North America that in 1794, in the midst of the French Revolution, the French National Convention had abolished slavery.
B) slaves in France's most lucrative Caribbean colony had won independence for what became the Republic of Haiti.
C) after the Revolutionary War ended, many former slaves who had supported the British settled as free people in Canada.
D) the planter elite in the Deep South released their slaves from bondage at an increasing rate after 1776.
Answer: D
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