A) Slavery degrades the slaveholder by killing his or her consciousness.
Consider the following from the text:
<span>"Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these excellent qualities, and her home of its early happiness. Conscience cannot stand much violence."</span>
The banks, where they are coming, but when?
This sentence is called subject sentence
I don't know if this is correct but I would choose B) distinguish between fact and opinion. The reason is because an editorial writer is supposed to make sure everything is fact and accurate, and they are supposed to record information faithfully. On the other hand, reporters tend to twist peoples words and make events seem bigger than what really happened.