Question

What claim do the authors make in this passage?

Cruel working conditions on sugar plantations caused many people to violently revolt and rebel.
Sugar has been a source of cruelty, from the time of plantations to modern farms.
Sugar plantations were violent systems, but sugar also led some people to reject slavery.
Sugar workers should reject the idea that anyone owns them and should combat cruelty.

Answer 1

" Sugar has been a source of cruelty, from the time of plantations to modern farms."

This option is the broad, central claim tying past plantation brutality to contemporary abuses; the others are narrower descriptions or prescriptive statements.