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The Ritual of "Jumping the Broom" Refers to

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The ritual of "jumping the broom" refers to ...


A) the act of slaves running away from the plantation.
B) a secret code used by the Underground Railroad to warn runaways of search parties.
C) resistance to Jim Crow laws in which African Americans ignored "whites only" signs.
D) the practice of a slave couple jumping over a broom as a symbol of their commitment to one another regardless of their legal right to marry.

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