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Human rights versus property rights. That argument goes on today as, for example, we debate how closely to regulate coal mining. Is it best to let owners set rules, which is likely to give all of us cheaper coal, or to have the government set standards, which is more likely to protect workers and the environment? In France, one side argued that slaves must be freed. The other said that to change anything in the sugar islands would invite slave revolts, help France's rivals, and thus hurt the nation. In the new United States, the Revolution gave white men with property a sense of freedom, while Africans were still enslaved. In England, abolitionists spoke up for Africans, but kings and lords still ruled. In France, revolutionaries were turning against their own nobles but remained uncertain about what this meant for enslaved Africans on their sugar islands. The Age of Revolutions was pressing ideas of freedom against the rights of property, and no one was sure where these great clashes would lead. In revolutionary France, the defenders of slaves began to win the argument against the advocates of property rights. By fall of 1791, the French passed a law making free blacks and people of mixed background on the sugar islands legally equal to all other Frenchmen. – Sugar Changed the World, Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos Which line from the passage best provides evidence that the sugar trade led to the end of slavery? “In France, one side argued that slaves must be freed.” “To change anything in the sugar islands would invite slave revolts, help France's rivals, and thus hurt the nation.” “No one was sure where these great clashes would lead.” “In revolutionary France, the defenders of slaves began to win the argument against the advocates of property rights.”

Answer 1

Answer:

D.

Explanation:

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Answer 2

Answer: The answer is indeed letter D) “In revolutionary France, the defenders of slaves began to win the argument against the advocates of property rights.”

Explanation:

That line introduces the idea that sugar is related to the freeing of slaves. The lines that follow state that black and mixed people from the French sugar islands were made legally equal to any other person from France. In other parts of the world, the ideas of freedom were still clashing with ideas of property. The same men who fought for their own freedom hesitated when it came to freeing the slaves that worked for them, since they believed they belonged to them. According to this excerpt, we can still see such a clash in current days when governments don't seem to want to regulate certain industries and protect their employees for the fear of affecting prices and the market.