Question

read the passage from sugar changed the world. the end of slavery was a great step for human rights. but what did it mean on the sugar plantations—which had depended on extremely cheap labor to keep up with the twenty - four - hour cycle from harvest to mill? in 1836, the same john gladstone whose sugar estate had exhibited the chained body of the slave leader quamina wrote to a shipping company. gladstone asked it to provide a hundred workers (the slang name was “coolies”) from india to labor on his plantations. gladstone’s first ships, the whitby, carrying 249 passengers, and the hesperus, carrying 244, sailed for demerara in 1838. what evidence do the authors include to support the central idea that the sugar plantations’ cheap labor source changed from enslaved people to indentured indians? the sugar plantations depended on cheap labor. the sugar plantations had a 24 - hour cycle. gladstone asked the shipping company to provide workers. gladstone exhibited the chained body of quamina.

Explanation:

The first two options just state general facts about sugar plantations (dependency on cheap labor and 24 - hour cycle) which don't directly show the shift from enslaved people to indentured Indians. The fourth option about exhibiting Quamina's body is related to slavery but not the shift in labor source. The third option, where Gladstone (a plantation owner) asked for workers (implied to be indentured as the context is post - slavery labor source change) from a shipping company, directly supports the idea of the labor source change.

Answer:

Gladstone asked the shipping company to provide workers.