The author most likely arranges the sentences in this way to show that early U.S. presidents acknowledged the evils of slavery even while participating in the system. This arrangement highlights the contradiction between the founding fathers’ recognition of slavery as a moral failing and their own involvement in it as slaveholders.
Fourth U.S. president and founder James Madison called America's engagement in the African slave trade the nation's "original sin."
The horrors of chattel slavery would bring down a wrath of biblical proportions, prophesied another founder, Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Like Madison, this third U.S. president was a slaveholder.
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Why does the author most likely arrange the sentences in this way?
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to emphasize how truly horrible Oslavery and the African slave trade were
to illustrate how much damage slavery did to the early United States and its people
to focus on the fact that some of the founding fathers were slaveholders themselves
to show that early U.S. presidents acknowledged the evils of slavery even while participating in the system
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