Which quotation states the claim of the passage? “In order to create sugar, Europeans and colonists in the Americas destroyed Africans.”
“Each needed to vote, to speak out, to challenge the rules of crowned kings and royal princes.”
“Why did people keep speaking of equality while profiting from slaves?”
“The global hunger for slave-grown sugar led directly to the end of slavery.”

D. “The global hunger for slave-grown sugar led directly to the end of slavery.”

Explanation:

"Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science" is a book written by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos.

This book gives an interesting insight on sugar and its impact on societies, from ancient to modern times.

This particular excerpt deals with the role sugar had in ending slavery which is quite ironic having in mind that the need for workers in the sugar factories was responsible for enslavement of millions of Africans from 16th till 18th century.

Working conditions in sugar factories and sugar plantations were inhuman because of the need to provide sugar to the growing market. The word about this reached the people in Europe where the wave of liberty and equality was spreading and culminated in French Revolution which ended slavery in French territories. Soon, other countries started following that example.