Sentence Correction

For many revisionist historians, Christopher Columbus has come to personify devastation and enslavement in the name of progress that has decimated native people of the Western Hemisphere.

A) devastation and enslavement in the name of progress that has decimated native peoples of the Western Hemisphere.
B) devastation and enslavement in the name of progress by which native peoples of the Western Hemisphere have been decimated.
C) devastating and enslaving in the name of progress those native peoples of the Western Hemisphere that have been decimated.
D) devastating and enslaving those native peoples of the Western hemisphere which in the name of progress are decimated.
E) the devastation and enslavement in the name of progress that have decimated the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere.

Wouldn't the following sentence be more correct?

For many revisionist historians, Christopher Columbus has come to personify the devastation and enslavement that have decimated the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere in the name of progress.

bounce87 wrote:Wouldn't the following sentence be more correct?

For many revisionist historians, Christopher Columbus has come to personify the devastation and enslavement that have decimated the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere in the name of progress.

Here, in the name of progress is an adverb serving to modify have decimated, conveying that the act of DECIMATING was performed in the name of progress.

OA: For many revisionist historians, Christopher Columbus has come to personify the devastation and enslavement in the name of progress that have decimated the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere.
Here, in the name of progress is an ADJECTIVE serving to modify the devastation and enslavement, conveying that the DEVASTATION AND ENSLAVEMENT were performed in the name of progress.

Although the sentence in red is grammatically correct, it does not convey the intended meaning of the OA.