Read the excerpt from an address delivered by abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet at the National Convention of Colored Citizens in Buffalo, New York, in 1843, and answer the question below.
'You are not far from the Bahamas, and in those islands, the beautiful flag of Liberty waves. Let the history of the Creole and Madison Washington be ever fresh in your minds. Madison Washington, a brother of ours, stood up in the midst of his chains and asserted his manhood, and in the name of God and Liberty, took command of the ship and steered her to a land of freedom.'
Garnet’s characterization of Madison Washington and the Creole rebellion best illustrates which of the following arguments made by Black abolitionists?
- Enslaved people possessed the agency and moral right to use force to secure their own freedom.Cevap
- BEnslaved people were dependent on external legal interventions by foreign governments to achieve emancipation.
- CShipboard rebellions were strategically coordinated with early colonial uprisings, such as the Stono Rebellion, to overthrow the plantation system.
- DEnslaved captives relied exclusively on covert resistance methods, such as hunger strikes and spiritual preservation, rather than direct confrontation.
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Enslaved people possessed the agency and moral right to use force to secure their own freedom.
The correct answer is correct because Henry Highland Garnet's address explicitly uses Madison Washington's armed seizure of the Creole as a model of heroic resistance. By describing Washington as asserting his manhood and taking command of the ship, Garnet argues that enslaved people had the inherent agency and moral justification to use force to liberate themselves.
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The Creole rebellion led by Madison Washington in 1841 demonstrates how captive Africans actively asserted their agency and fought for their freedom through shipboard rebellions, which in turn served as powerful symbols of resistance and self-liberation utilized by abolitionists.
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