"Although many of the Founding Fathers acknowledged that slavery violated the core American Revolutionary ideal of liberty, their simultaneous commitment to private property rights, principles of limited government, and intersectional harmony prevented them from making a bold move against slavery. In his initial draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson condemned the injustice of the slave trade and, by implication, slavery, but he also blamed the presence of enslaved Africans in North America on avaricious British colonial policies. Jefferson thus acknowledged that slavery violated the natural rights of the enslaved, while at the same time he absolved Americans of any responsibility for owning slaves themselves."
<span>Virginia and Maryland both developed as agrarian economies during their formative years. Maryland was set up by Lord Baltimore to be more of a religious refuge than Virginia, though, since there was a need for a location for Catholic settlers to go to be able to worship with less interference. Virginia was settled as a location for plantation owners to farm tobacco, once it was shown to be a profitable crop.</span>
I'm not exactly sure what the question is but I'm going to say that the answer is: <span>A. Roman culture influenced the development of Western Civilization.
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