Which quotation provides evidence to support the claim
that the sugar trade led to the end of slavery?
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
ve the antislavery forces an opportunity. if they
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.
-sugar changed the world,
marc aronson and marina budhos
"the english public knew little about the lives of
the enslaved africans whose labor sweetened their
meals."
"every englishman 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."
"while that link gave the
it also gave the antislavery forces an opportunity