Use the passage to answer the question. Why does the author most likely arrange the sentences in this way? (1 point) Responses to emphasize how truly horrible slavery and the African slave trade were to emphasize how truly horrible slavery and the African slave trade were to show that early U.S. presidents acknowledged the evils of slavery even while participating in the system to show that early U.S. presidents acknowledged the evils of slavery even while participating in the system to illustrate how much damage slavery did to the early United States and its people 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

Answer 1

The author most likely arranges the sentences 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 awareness of slavery's moral implications and their involvement in it, emphasizing the complexity of their roles in American history.