Question

the english public, now consuming some eighteen pounds of sugar a year, knew little about the lives of the enslaved africans whose labor sweetened their meals. worse yet, every englishman who hammered the wood, sewed the sails, manufactured the rope for slave ships, or built the barrels to hold slave - harvested sugar made his money from the slave trade. the english were getting richer because africans were being turned into property. clarkson and others who believed as he did, who in the coming decades would be called abolitionists, realized that while that link gave the english a stake in slavery, it also gave the antislavery forces an opportunity. if they could reverse the flow—make the horrors of slavery visible to those who benefited from it—they might be able to end the vile practice forever. —sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos
which quotation provides evidence to support the claim that the sugar trade led to the end of slavery?

• the english public... knew little about the lives of the enslaved africans whose labor sweetened their meals.
• every englishman who... built the barrels to hold slave - harvested sugar made his money from the slave trade.
• the english were getting richer because africans were being turned into property.
• while that link gave the english a stake in slavery, it also gave the antislavery forces an opportunity.

Explanation:

To support the claim that the sugar trade led to the end of slavery, we need a quotation showing a connection between the sugar trade and the opportunity to end slavery.

• The first option talks about the public's ignorance, not the end of slavery.
• The second option focuses on how people profited from the slave - related sugar trade, not on ending slavery.
• The third option explains why the English got richer from the slave trade, not on ending it.
• The fourth option says that the link (from the sugar trade) gave the antislavery forces an opportunity, which shows how the sugar trade could lead to the end of slavery.

Answer:

D. "While that link gave the English a stake in slavery, it also gave the antislavery forces an opportunity."