Correct. The answer is b. Heyward’s diary entry makes contradictory points, expressing both that the freed slaves were “left to themselves . . . roaming in a starvation condition . . . like lost sheep with no one to care for them,” and that efforts to treat them as equals would lead them to “rise against the whites, and in the end, be exterminated themselves.”
Incorrect. The answer is b. Heyward’s diary entry makes contradictory points, expressing both that the freed slaves were “left to themselves . . . roaming in a starvation condition . . . like lost sheep with no one to care for them,” and that efforts to treat them as equals would lead them to “rise against the whites, and in the end, be exterminated themselves.”