(! )what was true about the 1739 stono rebellion?
a. the leader of the rebelling slaves could read and write.
b. the slaves sought freedom in the north.
c. the slaves received by reminding the colonists of their love of liberty.
d. the result of the rebellion was that colonists agreed to some rights for slaves.

At the time of the Boston Massacre, John Adams was a patriot grieving the loss of a child with a new baby on the way. The Boston Massacre, in which British redcoats killed five American civilians. Prisma/UIG/Getty Images. Adams defended the British officer Thomas Preston and his soldiers in two separate trials.