read the passage from sugar changed the world. which sentence best states the authors claim in this passage

in the 1890s, southern states enacted a new form of black codes, called “jim crow” laws. these laws made it illegal for blacks and whites to share public facilities. this meant that blacks and whites had to use separate schools, hospitals, libraries, restaurants, hotels, bathrooms, and drinking fountains.

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the excerpt from the passage that best states the author's claim is: "why did people keep speaking of equality while profiting from slaves? "

when pierre lemerre the younger said in 1716 that all men were equal, slavery was reaching its crudest peak and either eastern europeans and africans were treated as objects from which powerful landlords could profit.

true, if that is the context. if not, then setting. setting does not always mean surrounding, but also senses. what you hear, see, small, taste, and feel is all a part of the setting.