Read the two passages from sugar changed the world
which statement best explains how the authors develop
their claim across the two passages?
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
both passages use evidence to develop the claim that
the general public needed to know about the terrors of
involuntary servitude.
both passages use evidence to develop the claim that
eastern european farmers and enslaved people on
sugar plantations shared a common goal
both passages use evidence to show that knowledge
of the extreme brutality of the sugar trade changed
viewpoints about enslavement
both passages use evidence to support the claim that
lawmakers had more power and influence than
abolitionists had
to say that all men are equal in 1716, when slavery was
flounshing in every corner of the world and most eastem
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,
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