Question 1 • 23.0617055 ECSD GA-Literature and Composition II CR
Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.Knowing that their slaves were likely to die by the time they reached their thirties, Louisiana sugar planters were extremely selective—they bought only healthy-looking young men in their late teens. On average, the men purchased in Louisiana were an inch taller than the people bought in the other slave states. Those teenagers made up seven to eight out of every ten slaves brought to America's sugar Hell. The others were younger teenage girls, around
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They argue that youth and gender are advantages when inventing entirely new forms of music.
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They argue that plantation owners acted against their own economic interests when they selected enslaved young men.
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They argue that different forms of music, such as jazz and bomba, came out of different types of hardship.
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They argue that extremely difficult conditions inspired enslaved young men to invent new forms of music.