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Sugar Changed the World, Part 4: Building Claims

Question 4 • AZ-English 2A (ELA201)

Read the two passages 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 w

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Both passages use evidence to develop the claim that the general public needed to know about the terrors of involuntary servitude.
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Both passages use evidence to develop the claim that Eastern European farmers and enslaved people on sugar plantations shared a common goal.
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Both passages use evidence to show that knowledge of the extreme brutality of the sugar trade changed viewpoints about enslavement.
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Both passages use evidence to support the claim that lawmakers had more power and influence than abolitionists had.
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