Is there a clear contradiction between '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.' and 'Horwitz says that they are as unhappy as their ancestors.'
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.###Horwitz says that they are as unhappy as their ancestors.