which line from the passage best provides evidence to support the claim that sugar was more of a killer" in louisiana than in the caribbean? in every single american slave state, the population of enslaved people kept rising. . . . . . . enough enslaved children were born, lived, and grew to become adults. "not only did the slave states need to harvest the cane in perfect rhythm with the grinding mills. . . ." people needed to work faster than the weather. . . .