Read the passage from a story in the arabian nights entertainments. the fisherman was very unhappy. "what an unlucky man i am to have freed you! i implore you to spare my life." "i have told you," said the genius, "that it is impossible. choose quickly; you are wasting time." the fisherman began to devise a plot. "since i must die," he said, "before i choose the manner of my death, i conjure you on your honour to tell me if you really were in that vase? " "yes, i was," answered the genius. "i really cannot believe it," said the fisherman. "that vase could not contain one of your feet even, and how could your whole body go in? i cannot believe it unless i see you do the thing." then the genius began to change himself into smoke, which, as before, spread over the sea and the shore, and which, then collecting itself together, began to go back into the vase slowly and evenly till there was nothing left outside. then a voice came from the vase which said to the fisherman, "well, unbelieving fisherman, here i am in the vase; do you believe me now? " the fisherman’s motivation is to make the genius grant him three wishes. try to find a way to stay alive. see how powerful the genius really is. have more time before the genius kills him.

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In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.