Question

read the passage from sugar changed the world. if you walked down beekman street in new york in the 1750s, you would come to a general store owned by gerard beekman—his family gave the street its name. the products on his shelves showed many of the ways sugar was linking the world. beekman and merchants like him shipped flour, bread, corn, salted beef, and wood to the caribbean. they brought back sugar, rum, molasses, limes, cocoa, and ginger. simple enough; but this trade up and down the atlantic coast was part of a much larger world system. textbooks talk about the triangle trade: ships set out from europe carrying fabrics, clothes, and simple manufactured goods to africa, where they sold their cargoes and bought people. the enslaved people were shipped across the atlantic to the islands, where they were sold for sugar. then the ships brought sugar to which evidence best supports the authors’ claim and purpose? “simple enough; but this trade up and down the atlantic coast was part of a much larger world system.” “beekman’s trade, for example, could cut out europe entirely.” “africans who sold other africans as slaves insisted on being paid in fabrics from india.” “what could the europeans use to buy indian cloth?”

Explanation:

The authors' claim is about how sugar linked the world through trade. The option "Africans who sold other Africans as slaves insisted on being paid in fabrics from India" shows a global trade connection (Africa, India) related to the slave - sugar trade system, supporting the claim. The first option is a general statement, the second is about cutting out Europe, and the fourth is a question, not evidence.

Answer:

C. "Africans who sold other Africans as slaves insisted on being paid in fabrics from India."