Fourth U.S. president and founder

Question

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.
Use the passage to answer the question.
Why does the author most likely arrange the sentences in this way?
(1 point)
to emphasize how truly horrible slavery and the African slave trade
were
to show that early U.S. presidents
O acknowledged the evils
of slavery even while participating in the system
to focus on the fact that some of the founding
• fathers were slaveholders themselves

Answer 1

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 their acknowledgment of slavery's moral wrongness and their own involvement as slaveholders.