How did the abolitionists link themselves to the nation's Revolutionary heritage?
A) They seized on the preamble to the Declaration of Independence as an attack against slavery.
B) They cracked the Liberty Bell to signify that the bonds of liberty were breaking under the weight of slavery.
C) They used mob action, just as the revolutionaries had when they attacked such disagreeable measures as the Stamp Act.
D) They reminded audiences constantly that the main issue the Sons of Liberty and similar groups had invoked was liberty.
E) They made a heroic figure of Crispus Attucks, the African-American who died at the Boston Massacre.
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