Scholars Disagree About the Extended Family System Found Among African

Scholars disagree about the extended family system found among African American slaves.While some agree with Angela Davis that it was a functional adaptation to the disruptions of slavery,other contend that

A) the slaves really maintained nuclear families throughout the historical period of slavery.
B) the slaves maintained extended family systems similar to those in West Africa from which they had been taken.
C) we have too little data to document the existence of a true extended family system.
D) slaves were treated as individuals so they were unable to maintain any family system.