In 1794,Absalom Jones and Richard Allen published A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People during the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in order to
A) chastise black Americans for having failed to help the people of Philadelphia during the yellow fever epidemic.
B) disprove arguments that escaped slaves had deliberately infected the population of Philadelphia with yellow fever.
C) refute allegations that blacks had used the yellow fever epidemic as an opportunity to plunder the homes of Philadelphians.
D) urge black readers to abandon their attempts to live up to white Americans' ideas of "respectability" and instead to find freedom in nonconformity.
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