Which is the strongest rebuttal to the counterclaim?

Claim: The tea set of the 1840s is the most historically significant object because it represents how supposedly civilized nations built power on slavery.

Counterclaim: By the time tea rose in popularity, Britain had already abolished slavery.

A) However, Neil MacGregor states that the tea set is "a three-piece social history of nineteenth-century Britain."
B) Even so, Britain traded with countries that allowed slavery, such as Cuba, which provided the sugar that people in England demanded for their tea.
C) While that is true, Britain still sought to develop tea plantations in Sri Lanka, creating jobs for workers overseas.

sentences vary by structure as well as by function. there are compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

simple sentence

i like to read.

a simple sentence has one independent clause.

compound sentence

i like to read, and i also like to write.

a compound sentence includes more than one independent clause, connected by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, or yet).

complex sentence

i prefer to read books that are bestsellers.

a complex sentence includes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. (a dependent clause is one that cannot stand alone.) types of dependent clauses include relative clauses (i kicked the boy who pinched me), adverb clauses (i am going home now because i have a curfew), and noun clauses (i don't know what to do next).

compound-complex sentence

although i prefer to read current bestsellers, i do like to read old agatha christie mysteries, and i also like some 20th-century science fiction.

compound-complex sentences take a bunch of clauses (multiple independent clauses, and one or more dependent clauses) and toss them together like a salad. although these sentences take practice to write in a grammatically correct fashion, they can hold a tremendous amount of meaning, and are common in academic writing.

i'm going to go whit a

i think continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way, they

stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay; ten thousand saw

i at glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.