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In 1784, five years before he became president of the United States, George Washington, 52, was nearly toothless. So he hired a
In 1784, five years before he became president of the United States, George Washington, 52, was nearly toothless. So he hired a
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In 1784, five years before he became president of the United States, George Washington, 52, was nearly toothless. So he hired a dentist to transplant nine teeth into his jaw-having extracted them from the months of his slaves.
That’s far different image from the cherry-tree-chopping George most people remember from their history books. But recently, many historians have begun to focus on the roles slavery played in the lives of the founding generation. They have been spurred in part by DNA evidence made available in 1998, which almost certainly proved Thomas Jefferson had fathered at least one child with his slave Sally Hemings. And only o-ver the past 30 years have scholars examined history from the bottom up. Works of several historians reveal the moral compromises made by the nation’s early leaders and the fragile nature of the country’s infancy. More significantly, they argue that many of the Founding Fathers knew slavery was wrong and yet most did little to fight it
More than anything, the historians say, the founders were hampered by the culture of their time. While Washington and Jefferson privately expressed distaste for slavery, they also understood that it was part of the political and economic bedrock of the country they helped to create.
For one thing, the South could not afford to part with its slaves. Owning slaves was "like having a large bank account, " says Wiencek, author of An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. The southern states would not have signed the Constitution without protections for the "peculiar institution" , including a clause that counted a slave as three fifths of a man for purposes of congressional representation.
And the statesmen’s political lives depended on slavery. The three-fifths formula handed Jefferson his narrow victory in the presidential election of 1800 by inflating the votes of the southern states in the Electoral College. Once in office, Jefferson extended slavery with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803; the new land was carved into 13 states, including three slave states.
Still, Jefferson freed Hemings’s children — though not Hemings herself or his approximately 150 other slaves. Washington, who had begun to believe that all men were created equal after observing the bravery of the black soldiers during the Revolutionary War, overcame the strong opposition of his relatives to grant his slaves their freedom in his will Only a decade earlier, such an act would have required legislative approval in Virginia.
George Washington’s dental surgery is mentioned to_______
选项
A、show the primitive medical practice in the past
B、demonstrate the cruelty of slavery in his days.
C、stress the role of slaves in the U. S. history.
D、reveal some unknown aspect of his life.
答案
D
解析
结构题,题干中的“is mentioned to”表明本题是结构题。第一段首先提到了华盛顿移植牙齿的例子,接着指出,最近,许多历史学家开始关注奴隶在建国那一代人的生活中所起的作用,他们一定程度上受到1998年所获得的DNA证据的鼓舞,这些证据几乎确切证实,托马斯·杰斐逊和他的奴隶萨利·赫明丝至少抚养了一个孩子。这说明,提到该例子是为了揭示其生活中一些不为人知的事情。D与上意符合,为正确答案。A、B和C都是误解了作者的意图。
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