The correct answer is B) Both were denied political rights because of their race.
The similarity between affranchis and African slaves in Saint-Domingue before the Haitian Revolution is that both were denied political rights because of their race.
Affranchi is a French legal term to identify emancipated slaves, but the term was used to name mulattoes in a pejoratively way. The people considered affranchis had some legal and social advantages in comparison to the slaves from Africa. Affranchis could own land, study in school, and were accepted in some French social activities
However, the affranchies could not vote, work in professions such as doctor or lawyers, and in any colonial administrative posts.
