Question

Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World. How do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim in this passage? Knowing that their slaves were likely to die by the time they reached their thirties, Louisiana sugar planters were extremely selective—they bought only healthy-looking young men in their late teens. On average, the men purchased in Louisiana were an inch taller than the people bought in the other slave states. Those teenagers made up seven to eight out of every ten slaves brought to America's sugar Hell. The others were younger teenage girls, around fifteen to sixteen years old. Their job, for the rest of their short lives, was to have children. Elizabeth Ross Hite knew that, for sure, "all de master wanted was fo' dem wimmen to hav children." Enslaved children would be put to work or sold. The overseer S.B. Raby explained, "Rachel had a 'fine boy' last Sunday. Our crop of negroes will I think make up any deficiencies there may be in the cane crop." That is, a master could sell any slaves who managed to live, if he needed more money than he could make from sugar.

1. They argue that youth and gender are advantages when inventing entirely new forms of music.

2. They argue that plantation owners acted against their own economic interests when they selected enslaved young men.

3. They argue that different forms of music, such as jazz and bomba, came out of different types of hardship.

4. They argue that extremely difficult conditions inspired enslaved young men to invent new forms of music.

Answer 1

D

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

3. They argue that different forms of music, such as jazz and bomba, came out of different types of hardship.

Step-by-step explanation:

The book "Sugar Changed the World" by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos describes how the favorite spice of sugar came to be. Tracing the history of sugar from the colonial times, the book delves into the form of slavery in these plantations and how it affects slaves the same way slavery overtook the cotton plantation.

In the given passage, the authors argue how different forms of music came to be a form of expression through which these slaves found entertainment and a voice. Despite their owners' claim that the slaves were "just cogs in machinery built to produce", the slaves invent ways to express their dissent, their anger, frustrations, and their dreams, homesickness, etc. Thus, music became a form of a voice in their 'restricted' environment. And the invention of such music, be it "Jazz in Louisiana, the Bomba in Puerto Rico and Maculelê in Brazil", all came out of the hardships that the people faced in their environments.

Thus, the correct answer is option 3.