When Andrew Jackson Had the Chance to Obtain African-American Help

When Andrew Jackson had the chance to obtain African-American help to fight the British in the Battle of New Orleans, he

A) refused on the grounds that, as a slaveholder, he could not accept their aid.
B) discovered that all the blacks in New Orleans had left the city to support the British.
C) recruited free men of color and promised them the same pay that white recruits received.
D) accepted only enslaved men, to whom he offered freedom as a form of payment.
E) accepted, but that so angered the white recruits that he later dismissed all the black soldiers.