Which claim is supported by this reading? the men on board the ship treated the enslaved people well. the ship suffered an epidemic of bacterial infection. the enslaved people onboard suffered from illness with some frequency. a large percentage of the enslaved people onboard had died.

Look at the painting the lictors bring to brutus the bodies of his sons by jacques-louis david (1789). the most likely message this painting sends to french citizens is that one must be prepared to sacrifice their own children to preserve france. loyalty to one’s country stops short of sacrificing one’s own children. brutality is an integral part of revolution and the reign of terror. no one is immune to death, not even the leaders of the revolution.