Does 'Horwitz makes us see that the pinched circumstances of their lives are not so different from the conditions of their ancestors, dirt-poor yeoman farmers who seldom saw, much less owned, a slave.' hold a position of neutrality in relation to 'Their ancestors were poor farmers that never owned a slave and rarely even saw one.'
Horwitz makes us see that the pinched circumstances of their lives are not so different from the conditions of their ancestors, dirt-poor yeoman farmers who seldom saw, much less owned, a slave.###Their ancestors were poor farmers that never owned a slave and rarely even saw one.