Passage
the tone
true! --nervous -- very, very dreadfully nervous i had been
and am; but why will you say that i am mad? the disease had
sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. above
all was the sense of hearing acute. i heard all things in the
heaven and in the earth. i heard many things in hell. how, then,
am i mad? hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly i
can tell you the whole story.

what is the tone?

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.