Question

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.

Slave owners fought back, arguing that owners should be able to list their slaves as property when they arrived in France and take them with them when they left. Though most parts of France agreed to this, law–makers in Paris hesitated. Pierre Lemerre the Younger made the case for the slaves. "All men are equal," he insisted in 1716—exactly sixty years before the Declaration of Independence.

To say that "all men are equal" in 1716, when slavery was flourishing in every corner of the world and most eastern Europeans themselves were farmers who could be sold along with the land they worked, was like announcing that there was a new sun in the sky. In the Age of Sugar, when slavery was more brutal than ever before, the idea that all humans are equal began to spread—toppling kings, overturning governments, transforming the entire world.

Sugar was the connection, the tie, between slavery and freedom. In order to create sugar, Europeans and colonists in the Americas destroyed Africans, turned them into objects. Just at that very same moment, Europeans—at home and across the Atlantic—decided that they could no longer stand being objects themselves. They each needed to vote, to speak out, to challenge the rules of crowned kings and royal princes. How could that be? Why did people keep speaking of equality while profiting from slaves? In fact, the global hunger for slave-grown sugar led directly to the end of slavery. Following the strand of sugar and slavery leads directly into the tumult of the Age of Revolutions. For in North America, then England, France, Haiti, and once again North America, the Age of Sugar brought about the great, final clash between freedom and slavery.

Which excerpt from the passage best states the authors' claim?

A. "Slave owners fought back, arguing that owners should be able to list their slaves as property . . . "

B. "'All men are equal,' he insisted in 1716—exactly sixty years before the Declaration of Independence."

C. "Why did people keep speaking of equality while profiting from slaves?"

D. "Following the strand of sugar and slavery leads directly into the tumult of the Age of Revolutions."

Answer 1

Sugar changed the world:

• The author's claim is "sugar changed the world". People owned slaves. Even slave-owners argued that slaves would be listed as property.

• One of the law-makers, Pierre Lemerre the Younger stated "All men are equal" and that phrase spread like wildfire throughout the world.

• Slave-owners got profits from the slave-grown sugar, which in the end led to the end of slavery. The Age of Sugar brought about the great, final clash between freedom and slavery.

Answer:

Thus we can say the appropriate excerpt that best states the author's claim is

D. "Following the strand of sugar and slavery leads directly into the tumult of the Age of Revolutions."

Answer 2

Answer:

D

Explanation:

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