Sugar Changed the World, Part 2: Central Ideas — Unit test
Question 16 • FL-1001340-English 2 Sem 1 - Flex
Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.No one interviewed the Africans who labored in the sugar fields to ask them about their hard labor. They were meant to work and die. But there is one way we can hear them. The Africans invented music, dances, and songs that carry on the pulse, the beat, of their lives. (To hear examples of music from the sugar lands, go to www.sugarchangedtheworld.com.) In Puerto Rico, bomba is a form of music and dance that the sugar workers invented. It is a kind o
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"Bomba is a form of music and dance that the sugar workers invented."
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"They were not just labor, not just bodies born to work and die."
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"Similarly, in Brazil there is a dance called Maculelê."
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"People spin, jump, and seem to menace each other."