Question

How do the authors develop the claim in the two passages?

Both passages help the reader understand how the end of involuntary servitude in Haiti led to the end of involuntary servitude in Britain.
Both passages illustrate how property rights were more important to the British than to Americans.
Both passages support the claim that human rights became more important than property rights in the early 1800s.
Both passages support the claim that the end of the slave trade eventually led to the end of the sugar industry.

Answer 1

Both passages support the claim that human rights became more important than property rights in the early 1800s.

Explanation: each author emphasizes a shift away from defending slavery on economic/property grounds toward arguing from moral and legal rights — showing how public opinion, political pressure, and legal change increasingly prioritized human freedom over planters’ property claims. They develop this by citing events, laws, and rhetoric that mark the decline of property-based justifications and the rise of human-rights arguments that culminated in abolition.