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Sugar Changed the World, Part 4: Building Claims

Question 2 • FL-1001340-English 2 Sem 1 - Flex

Which quotation provides evidence to support the claim that the sugar trade led to the end of slavery?

Answer
A
“The English public . . . knew little about the lives of the enslaved Africans whose labor sweetened their meals.”
B
“Every Englishman who . . . built the barrels to hold slave-harvested sugar made his money from the slave trade.”
C
“The English were getting richer because Africans were being turned into property.”
D
“While that link gave the English a stake in slavery, it also gave the antislavery forces an opportunity.”
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