The tone of the passage could best be described as______.

A．The history of Black People in the United States.
B．West African Tribal Relations.
C．The Origin of Modern Afro-American Consciousness.
D．Slavery: A Democratic Anomaly.

A．The duality that characterizes the consciousness of modern Black Americans is so deeply rooted that it cannot be eliminated by political action.
B．African captives who were brought to North America had learned a basic orientation toward the world which remained with them.
C．At the time of the beginning of the United States, white Americans were not aware of the contradiction between the notion of equality and the institution of slavery.
D．The influence of the slavery experience on the West Africans was more powerful than the memory of West African attitudes.