Multiple Choice
What was a common way in which enslaved African Americans attempted to cope with the brutalities of slavery?
A) They abandoned their own customs in favor of the slave master's culture to build a sense of cohesion in their everyday lives.
B) They largely disengaged from other slaves and sought a path of isolation to help cultivate a stoic mind-set that would better enable them to avoid punishment.
C) They embraced religion and gathered in secret night meetings called spirituals where singing and dancing gave them a much-needed emotional release.
D) They sang religious spirituals while in the fields that reinforced their belief in the justice of slavery as an institution and gave their daily work a sense of importance.
E) They built secret stations for health services that had been denied to them by slave owners and experimented with different sophisticated remedies.
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