Which statement best explains how the authors develop their claim across the two passages?
Read the two passages from Sugar Changed the
World
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 the 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 flounshing in every corner of the world and most
eastem 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
Both passages use evidence to develop the claim
that the general public needed to know about the
terrors of involuntary servitude
O Both passages use evidence to develop the claim
that Eastern European farmers and enslaved
people on sugar plantations shared a common
goal
O 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