Asked by julie

What is the central claim of this passage?

People rejected sugar because it caused harm to the people who harvested it.
The joys of sugar were the result of the suffering of enslaved African people.
Humans crave sugar over any other taste from the time they are born.
People in the 1700s wanted sugar, no matter how rare and expensive it was.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
The joys of sugar were the result of the suffering of enslaved African people.

This best captures the passage’s main point linking the enjoyment of sugar to the exploitation and harm inflicted on enslaved workers who produced it.