Sugar Changed the World, Part 3: Word Choice and Multimedia
Question 6 • FL-1001340-English 2 Sem 1 - Flex
Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.By the 1800s, it was clear that the Age of Sugar—that combination of enslavement, factories, and global trade—was replacing the Age of Honey, when people ate local foods, lived on the land of their ancestors, and valued tradition over change. Sugar was the product of the slave and the addiction of the poor factory worker—the meeting place of the barbarism of overseers such as Thomas Thistlewood and the rigid new economy. And yet, for that very reason
Answer
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"Sugar was the product of the slave and the addiction of the poor factory worker—the meeting place of the barbarism of overseers such as Thomas Thistlewood and the rigid new economy.”
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"When we talk about Atlantic slavery, we must describe sugar Hell; and yet that is only part of the story."
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"Africans were the true global citizens—adjusting to a new land, a new religion, even to other Africans they would never have met in their homelands."
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"And indeed, it was when the enslaved Africans began to speak—in words and in actions—when Europeans began to see them as human, that the Age of Sugar also became the Age of Freedom."
Explanation
The passage describes sugar as tied to enslavement and harsh factory labor, then signals a contrast with “And yet.” Choice D explains that a movement toward freedom emerged from this painful history: enslaved Africans spoke and acted, and Europeans began to recognize their humanity. It also directly connects the Age of Sugar with the Age of Freedom.
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