Why did freedmen assert that they were owed land?
A) They believed that it would be fair compensation for their military service.
B) They saw Southern property as the product of both their and their ancestors' unpaid labor.
C) They feared that property requirements for suffrage would be reestablished.
D) They sought it as remuneration for the race-based violence of Southern whites.
E) Their views of property ownership were akin to those of Native Americans.
B
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