Question

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.”

Answer 1

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

This sentence explicitly shows how the sugar-slavery connection created a political opening for antislavery activists, supporting the claim that the sugar trade helped bring about the end of slavery.