Answers 202526 IGC-English II - Prescriptive Sugar Changed the World, Part 4: Building ClaimsQuestion 2

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Sugar Changed the World, Part 4: Building Claims

Question 2 • 2025/26 IGC-English II - Prescriptive

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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