Sugar Changed the World, Part 4: Building Claims

Question 1 of 6 • 25-26 Summer - HISD CR English II A-2nd Nine Weeks

Which quotation provides evidence to support the claim that the sugar trade led to the end of slavery?

Answer

“The English public . . . knew little about the lives of the enslaved Africans whose labor sweetened their meals.”

“Every Englishman who . . . built the barrels to hold slave-harvested sugar made his money from the slave trade.”

“The English were getting richer because Africans were being turned into property.”

“While that link gave the English a stake in slavery, it also gave the antislavery forces an opportunity.”

Sugar Changed the World, Part 4: Building Claims

Sugar Changed the World, Part 5: Developing and Refining Ideas

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Question 1 of 6 • 25-26 Summer - HISD CR English II A-2nd Nine Weeks

Answer

“The English public . . . knew little about the lives of the enslaved Africans whose labor sweetened their meals.”

“Every Englishman who . . . built the barrels to hold slave-harvested sugar made his money from the slave trade.”

“The English were getting richer because Africans were being turned into property.”

“While that link gave the English a stake in slavery, it also gave the antislavery forces an opportunity.”

Sugar Changed the World, Part 4: Building Claims

Sugar Changed the World, Part 5: Developing and Refining Ideas

Assignment