Which statement is true about black abolitionists?

A) Many formerly enslaved people published accounts of their lives in bondage, which together convinced thousands of northerners of the immorality of slavery.
B) The American Anti-Slavery Society excluded black abolitionists entirely.
C) White abolitionists shared key decision-making posts equally with black abolitionists.
D) Black abolitionists celebrated the Fourth of July holiday in order to promote the idea that the United States represented the progress of freedom.
E) Black abolitionists were a small minority of the subscribers to William Lloyd Garrison's journal The Liberator.

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Final Answer : A, Explanation :  Many formerly enslaved people, such as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, published narratives about their lives in slavery, which played a significant role in changing public opinion in the North about the immorality of slavery. These narratives provided firsthand accounts of the brutalities of slavery, making the abstract debates about slavery more personal and compelling.

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