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Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World
Which details do the authors include to support the
claim in this passage? Select two options.
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information on enslaved populations in different
American states
information on weather conditions in Louisiana and
the Caribbean
As sugar planters fled from the revolution in Haiti,
some moved to Cuba's Oriente Province, others to
North America—to Louisiana. By the time the Haitian
plantation owners and overseers reached New
Orleans, abolitionists were pressing to end the African
slave trade. The tragedy is that this movement to end
slavery did nothing to improve conditions in Louisiana.
In fact, the state that slaves called Lousy Anna was
the very worst place for an African in America; it was
the Caribbean all over again—a death sentence.
In every single American slave state, the population of
enslaved people kept rising even after the slave trade
was abolished. That was because enough enslaved
children were born, lived, and grew to become adults.
There was just one exception to this rule: Louisiana,
where the native-born enslaved population kept
information on how conditions for enslaved people
improved in Louisiana
examples of individual planters who fled Louisiana
for Cuba
examples of why cold snaps made it easier to
harvest sugarcane
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