Complex sentence: First most early employee records such as musters and payrolls were created solely for financial purposes and rarely identify race.As one expert on slavery in early Washington D.C. succinctly put it, the District's first leaders had "a knack for ignoring slaves" in their correspondence.
Split into simpler sentences: First most early employee records such as musters and payrolls were created solely for financial purposes and rarely identify race. In addition, as one expert on slavery in early Washington D.C. succinctly put it, the District's first leaders had "a knack for ignoring slaves" in their correspondence.