Question

Read the two passages from Sugar Changed the World.

Answer 1

Answer:

‘Both passages use evidence to show that knowledge of the extreme brutality of the sugar trade changed viewpoints about enslavement’.

Explanation:

According to the author, sugar trade had caused a lot of mayhem, but it had also played a big role in changing people’s viewpoints about slavery.

As seen in the first passage, ‘Pierre Lemerre’ stands up for the slaves, declaring that all men are equal. As the knowledge and the idea of this statement reaches the masses, that is when the kings started to topple and the governments overturned.

Similarly, in the second passage, when people finally understood the terrors faced by the slaves, while in Sugar Trade, they made attempts to abolish it. Thus, the knowledge of the things endured by the slaves changed people’s ideologies regarding slavery.