Glish II-Jekielek
Analyzing HOW MStoricar Deralis support a cratim
How do the authors use historical details to support
the claim that the sugar trade led to the end of
slavery?
In North America, farmers plowing the rocky New
England soil, or even the proud Virginians with their
slave-run tobacco farms, did not have the luxury of
turning their work over to others and moving to London.
The Americans wanted cheap sugar and to be able to buy
it anywhere, but they had no voice in Parliament. That
made it extremely hard to take when Parliament sided
with the sugar planters. Americans felt they were being
cheated, silenced-in fact, enslaved.
In 1733, Parliament ruled that an extra six cents must be
added to the price of every gallon of molasses that did not
come from an English source. If the colonists actually
followed the rules of the Molasses Act, it would have
terrible consequences. Molasses from French islands
would now be too expensive-merchants could never
make a profit. So they would have to turn to the English,
who would surely raise their prices. This one law could
cripple the entire North American trade with the sugar
by demonstrating how taxation drove the
abolitionist movement in America
by illustrating Americans' belief that all people
should be free
by emphasizing Parliament's bias toward
plantation owners
by showing that Americans feared being enslaved
by the English king
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