Answer:
Among the options given on the question the correct answer is option D.
They argue that extremely difficult conditions inspired enslaved young men to invent new forms of music.
Explanation:The passage is from the book "Sugar Changed the World" by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos. This couple were inspired to write about the bitter lives laid in the sweetness of sugar. In the given passage there is a description of the enslaved workers of Louisiana where they were employed in the sugar plants.
They were forced to work in the hard condition of the sugar plants and most of the workers were late teenagers to thirty years old. They were selected as they were strong for work. The female were only give birth of enslaved child so the labor force can be produced.
This critical condition of the young enslaved workers inspired them to form a new kind of music to express their feeling which was Jazz music.This music gave them the ability to think more than their struggling life of slavery.
Same as the music Bomba from Puerto Rico, Maculele from Brazil were the invention of the people from difficult and harder situation. They found these musics as their way to express feeling.
So, the authors used historical evidence to support their claim by arguing that extremely difficult conditions inspired enslaved young men to invent new forms of music.
