CInyCVIdence to Support a Claim The English public, now consuming some eighteen
pounds of sugar a year, knew little about the lives of the
enslaved Africans whose labor sweetened their meals.
Worse yet, every Englishman who hammered the wood,
sewed the sails, manufactured the rope for slave ships, or
built the barrels to hold slave-harvested sugar made his
money from the slave trade. The English were getting
richer because Africans were being turned into property.
Clarkson and others who believed as he did, who in the
coming decades would be called abolitionists, realized
that while that link gave the English a stake in slavery, it
also gave the antislavery forces an opportunity. If they
could reverse the flow-make the horrors of slavery
Visible to those who benefited from it-they might be able
to end the vile practice forever.
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Which quotation provides evidence to support the claim
that the sugar trade led to the end of slavery?
O "The English public... knew little about the lives of
the enslaved Africans whose labor sweetened their
meals."
O "Eveỳ Englishman who...built the barrels to hold
slave-harvested sugar made his money from the
OThe English were getting richer because Africans
O "While that link gave the English a stake in slavery.
slave trade."
were being turned into property."
it also gave the antislavery forces an opportunity."
-Sugar Changed the World,
Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos