Sugar Changed the World, Part 3: Word Choice and Multimedia
Question 6 • CA-English Language Arts 10 A
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
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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."