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Answer:
B.) It provides background on how a family from Russia got into the sugar business.
Explanation:
The book "Sugar Changed The World" by the couple Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos traces the history of sugar came to be one of the most important staple for everyone around the world. They gave a detailed history of how this sweet substance came to be a part of households around the world.
In the given excerpt from the text, the writers provide the history of how a family from Russia came to be a part of the sugar business. The speaker narrates how <em>"a Russian serf..... helped to change the course of the history of sugar"</em>, leading to the desperate attempts <em>"to find a new way to create sugar"</em>. Thus, this passage provides a background on how the Russian serf and his family began to get involved into the sugar business.
The union needed the help of African-American soldiers if they were to win the war. By releasing the emancipation proclamation, Abraham Lincoln declared that all slaves in Confederate territories would be free. Since they were now theoretically free, if the Union army managed to reach areas where there was a lot of former slaves, they would now be able to join the army and help free other slaves. They were no longer property that belonged to the slave owners, but free people who would fight slavery in the army.
Puritans in Mary's colonial community read solely for the purpose of better understanding God's divine guidance and the teachings of the Bible. In Mary Rowlandson's narrative, her experience of captivity and redemption represents the Puritan doctrine that suffering and obedience will be rewarded with deliverance.
