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Difficulty: EasyBlack Abolitionism and Anti-Slavery Activism

Read the following excerpt from an 1854 editorial by Mary Ann Shadd Cary in *The Provincial Freeman*:

'We have chosen Canada for our home, and we are not disappointed... Here we are free, and can acquire property, and educate our children, and make ourselves men and women... We have no slave-catchers here, no fugitive slave laws...'

Based on the excerpt, which of the following best describes Cary's primary strategy for resisting the oppression of Black people in the United States?

  1. Promoting emigration to Canada to secure freedom and civil rights free from American slave laws.Answer
  2. B
    Advocating for immediate, armed rebellions to overthrow the plantation system across the American South.
  3. C
    Asserting that all Black abolitionists unanimously agreed that leaving the United States was the only solution to racial oppression.
  4. D
    Limiting her advocacy to spiritual guidance within early Black churches, avoiding any political or legal commentary.

Answer

Promoting emigration to Canada to secure freedom and civil rights free from American slave laws.
The excerpt explicitly states that Canada was chosen as a home because they are free, can acquire property, and educate their children without the threat of slave-catchers or fugitive slave laws, which directly aligns with the strategy of promoting emigration to Canada.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the provided historical source written by Mary Ann Shadd Cary in 1854.
The text describes choosing Canada as a home because of the freedom to acquire property, educate children, and live without the threat of slave-catchers or fugitive slave laws.
Identifying the author's primary argument and setting helps determine their anti-slavery strategy.
2
Evaluate the answer choices to find the one that matches Cary's described strategy.
The strategy described is emigration to Canada, which is directly reflected in the option about promoting emigration to Canada to secure freedom.
Connecting the evidence in the stimulus directly to the correct historical strategy ensures an accurate interpretation of the text.

Key Concept

Strategies of Black abolitionists, specifically emigrationism in response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
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Black Abolitionism and Anti-Slavery Activism

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