Question

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. The leaders of the American Revolution kept close watch as the former slaves fought for their freedom in Haiti. But that fight split the Founding Fathers—who had their own conflicts about how to deal with slavery in the new United States. When John Adams was president, he sent guns and supplies to Toussaint to help in the struggle against the French. Thomas Jefferson, though, was terrified by the success of the Haitian revolution. When Thomas Jefferson succeeded Adams, he saw Haiti only as a threat. He expected ex-slaves from the island to spread into America, preaching freedom and rebellion to the slaves. "Unless something is done," he warned, "and soon done, we shall be the murderers of our own children . . . ; the revolutionary storm now sweeping the globe will be upon us." So he refused to recognize Haiti—America's only sister republic. In fact, it was not until 1862 that Abraham Lincoln, about to issue the Emancipation Proclamat

Answer 1

Answer: by quoting Thomas Jefferson’s views on the dangers of enslaved Haitians rebelling; by describing John Adams's actions to support Haiti in its fight against the French; by illustrating Thomas Jefferson’s view that the Haitian rebellion could lead to a rebellion of the enslaved in America

In the given excerpt, the author quotes two contrasting ideas held by US political leaders on slavery.

While John Adams and Lincoln advocated for the freedom of slavery, Thomas Jefferson was in support of slavery.