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 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 was flourishing in every corner of the world and most eastern 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, overturning governments, transforming the entire world. sugar was the connection, the tie, , between slavery 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. mark this and return