Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.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
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Most eastern Europeans themselves were farmers who could be sold along with the land.
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Europeans and colonists in the Americas destroyed Africans, turned them into objects.
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Why did people keep speaking of equality while profiting from slaves?
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The global hunger for slave-grown sugar led directly to the end of slavery.