Sugar Changed the World, Part 3: Word Choice and Multimedia
Question 27 • FL-1001340-English 2 Sem 1 - Flex
Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.Seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the French started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of Hispaniola that they controlled (which is now Haiti), as well as Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana (along the South American coast near Dutch Guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more African slaves. By 1753, British ships were taking an average of 34,250 slaves from Africa every year
Answer
P
People rejected sugar because it caused harm to the people who harvested it.
T
The joys of sugar were the result of the suffering of enslaved African people.
H
Humans crave sugar over any other taste from the time they are born.
P
People in the 1700s wanted sugar, no matter how rare and expensive it was.
Explanation
The passage connects the profits and growth of the sugar trade to the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Africans. This shows that the sugar enjoyed by consumers came at the cost of enslaved people’s suffering. Choice B, “The joys of sugar were the result of the suffering of enslaved African people,” best expresses that connection.
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