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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.

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Which of the following can be inferred from the passage concerning Britain's rule in its Canadian colonies after the American Revolution?

  • A Humiliated by their defeat by the Americans, the British sharply curtailed civil rights in their Canadian colonies.
  • B The British largely ignored their Canadian colonies.
  • C The British encouraged the colonization of Canada by those African Americans who had served on the American side as well as by those who had served on the British side.
  • D Some of Britain's policies in its Canadian colonies were similar to its policies in its American colonies before the American Revolution.
  • E To reduce the debt incurred during the war, the British imposed even higher taxes on the Canadian colonists than they had on the American colonists.

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