Read the excerpt from Thoughts and Sentiments . The longer that men continue in the practice of evil and wickedness, they grow the more abandoned; for nothing in history can equal the barbarity and cruelty of the tortures and murders committed under various pretences in modern slavery, except the annals of the Inquisition and the bloody edicts of Popish massacres. What belief does Cugoano explicitly express in this excerpt?
Answer
A
Slavery is an awful and vicious practice.
B
Slaveholders need spiritual guidance.
C
One cannot stop the practice of slavery.
D
There have been worse things than slavery.
Explanation
Cugoano describes the tortures and murders committed under slavery as acts of “barbarity and cruelty.” He says that only the Inquisition and religious massacres could equal their brutality, emphasizing that slavery is an awful and vicious practice. He does not say that slavery cannot be stopped or that slaveholders merely need guidance.
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