Read the paragraph from the section "Constitution through compromise."
Some delegates considered slavery
an evil institution. George Mason of
Virginia even suggested that the
slave trade should be made illegal.
Delegates from South Carolina and
Georgia, where slavery was
expanding rapidly in the late 1700s,
angrily opposed this limitation.
WHY does the author include George Mason's
suggestion and some states' reaction to it?
А
to show how delegates almost ended the
slave trade
*B
to emphasize how delegates thought slavery
was evil

Which four excerpts from the poem "a political reverie" by mercy otis warren imply that america was an oppressed and exploited nation? no despot here shall rule with awful sway nor orphan's spoils become the minion's prey; no more the widow'd bleeding bosom mourns, nor injur'd cities weep their slaughter'd sons; for then each tyrant, by the hand of fate, and standing troops, the bane of every state, forever spurn'd, shall be remov'd as far as bright hesperus from the polar star; freedom and virtue shall united reign, and stretch their empire o'er the wide domain. on a broad base the commonwealth shall stand, when lawless power withdraws its impious hand; when crowns and sceptres are grown useless things, nor petty pretors plunder here for kings