It can be inferred that the author of the passage mentions American Slavery, American Freedom in the second paragraph primarily in order to A. substantiate a point about the methodology that came to be prevalent among scholars engaged in the origins debate B. cite a major influence on those scholars who claimed that racial prejudice preceded the institution of slavery in colonial America C. show that some scholars who were engaged in the origins debate prior to the 1980s were interested in the experiences of enslaved people D. identify a reason for a certain difference in the late 1970s between the origins debate and the debate over American women's status E. contrast the kind of work produced by scholars engaged in the origins debate with the kind produced by scholars engaged in the debate over American women's status