Growth of the free black population was fueled by all of the following except:
A) slave owners freeing their bondspeople.
B) bondspeople purchasing their own freedom.
C) certain states issuing legislation freeing all slaves willing to migrate west.
D) bondspeople fleeing slavery.
Question 2
Inspired by the American revolutionary ideology of inalienable rights, this event began the transformation of the Atlantic World in the 1780's and 1790's:
A) a slave rebellion in the French sugar and coffee island of St. Domingue.
B) Mother Bethel church in Philadelphia severs ties with the Methodist conference.
C) Richard Allen and Absalom Jones establish the Free African Society of Philadelphia.
D) Congress establishes the Mississippi Territory, facilitating the spread of slavery.