Original sentence: Girty, is as "a cruel, unprincipled man, a traitor to his country, a renegade and leader among our Indian foes, a coarse, low type of a Benedict Arnold—the most hated man on the border
Edited sentence: Girty, presented as a negative role model, is described how Americans of the era typically viewed him: "a cruel, unprincipled man, a traitor to his country, a renegade and leader among our Indian foes, a coarse, low type of a Benedict Arnold—the most hated man on the border