Which quotation states the claim of the passage?
Sugar was the connection, the tie, between slavery and
freedom. In order to create sugar, Europeans and
colonists in the Americas destroyed Africans, turned
them into objects. Just at that very same moment,
Europeans-at home and across the Atlantic-decided
that they could no longer stand being objects themselves.
They each needed to vote, to speak out, to challenge the
rules of crowned kings and royal princes. How could that
be? Why did people keep speaking of equality while
profiting from slaves? In fact, the global hunger for slave-
grown sugar led directly to the end of slavery. Following
the strand of sugar and slavery leads directly into the
tumult of the Age of Revolutions. For in North America,
then England, France, Haiti, and once again North
America, the Age of Sugar brought about the great, final
clash between freedom and slavery.
-Sugar Changed the World,
Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
"In order to create sugar, Europeans and colonists
in the Americas destroyed Africans.
"Each needed to vote, to speak out, to challenge
the rules of crowned kings and royal princes"
"Why did people keep speaking of equality while
profiting from slaves?"
O "The global hunger for slave-grown sugar led
directly to the end of slavery."
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