Answer: What is the central claim of this passage? The joys of sugar were the result of the suffering of enslaved African people. Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. For an African, whether you were sent to the Caribbean or South America, you were now part of the sugar machine.
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They needed to set up a new government and wanted to be sure it could not harm their rights.