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How do the authors use historical details to support the claim that the sugar trade led to the end of slavery?

by demonstrating how taxation drove the abolitionist movement in America
by illustrating Americans’ belief that all people should be free
by emphasizing Parliament’s bias toward plantation owners
by showing that Americans feared being enslaved by the English king

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emphasizing Parliament’s bias toward plantation owners

They point to parliamentary actions and laws that protected planter interests to show how the sugar trade’s political influence both sustained slavery and, once challenged, helped bring about its end.