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What is the most important claim that the authors make in "Part Four: Back to Our Stories: New Workers, New Sugar” in Sugar Changed the World?

Mahatma Gandhi was an inspiring leader in the cause for human rights.
Sugar production and trade had a global impact on slavery and rebellion.
Technology removed the need for large numbers of laborers to process sugar.
Beet sugar and artificial sweeteners led to the downfall of the sugar industry.

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Sugar production and trade had a global impact on slavery and rebellion.

The authors argue that sugar’s demand reshaped labor systems worldwide—driving slavery, provoking resistance and revolts, and later spawning new forms of labor (indentured workers) and industrial changes—so sugar’s global social and political effects are the central claim.