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For many years, Benjamin Quarles' seminal account of the participation of African Americans in the American Revolution has remained the standard work in the field. According to Quarles, the outcome of this conflict was mixed for African American slaves who enlisted in Britain's fight against its rebellious American colonies in return for the promise of freedom: the British treacherously resold many into slavery in the West Indies, while others obtained freedom in Canada and Africa. Building on Quarles' analysis of the latter group, Sylvia Frey studied the former slaves who emigrated to British colonies in Canada. According to Frey, these refugees-the most successful of the African American Revolutionary War participants-viewed themselves as the ideological heirs of the American Revolution. Frey sees this inheritances reflected in their demands for the same rights that the American revolutionaries had demanded from the British: land ownership, limits to arbitrary authority and burdensome taxes, and freedom of religion.
The author of the passage suggests that which of the following is true of Benjamin Quarles' work?
- A It introduced a new and untried research methodology.
- B It contained theories so controversial that they gave rise to an entire generation of scholarship
- C It was a pioneering work that has not yet been displaced by subsequent scholarship.
- D It launched the career of a scholar who later wrote even more important works.
- E At the time it appeared, its author already enjoyed a well-established reputation in the field.