Which excerpt from the passage best states the authors'
claim?
O "Slave owners fought back, arguing that owners should
be able to list their slaves as property..."
O "All men are equal,' he insisted in 1716-exactly sixty
years before the Declaration of Independence."
O "Why did people keep speaking of equality while
profiting from slaves?"
"Following the strand of sugar and slavery leads directly
into the tumult of the Age of Revolutions."

From the passage the best summary for the author's claim is that: "Following the strand of sugar and slavery leads directly into the tumult of the Age of Revolutions."

What was the author trying to convey?

The author of the piece was trying to talk about the way the use of slaves in the sugar plantations helped the slave owners get very rich.

According to him, the age of sugar was what brough tabout the final clash between slaves and their owners which led to the end of slavery.

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