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 flourishing in every corner of the world and most
eastern 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 to
spread-toppling kings, overturning governments,
Which statement best explains how the authors develop
their claim across the two passages?
Both passages use evidence to develop the claim
that the general public needed to know about the
terrors of involuntary servitude.
Both passages use evidence to develop the claim
that Eastern European farmers and enslaved people
on sugar plantations shared a common goal.
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.