Question

read the passage from sugar changed the world. which sentence best states the authors claim in this passage? slave labor was valuable because it produced cheap sugar that everyone wanted to buy. but if people stopped buying that sugar, the whole slave system would collapse. in the years leading up to the american revolution, the women of new england refused to buy english products and english tea. the loss of income made london rescind some of the taxes it had imposed on america. now this same tactic—boycotting—was used to fight slavery. some 400,000 english people stopped buying the sugar that slaves grew and harvested. instead, they bought loaves of sugar that carried a label that said \produced by the labor of freemen\—the sugar came from india. when the english looked at the sugar they used every day, clarkson and the other abolitionists made them

Explanation:

The passage first mentions that slave - labor produced cheap sugar. Then it gives examples of boycotting (New England women boycotting English products and English people boycotting slave - produced sugar). The overall idea is that boycotting was a way to fight against the slave - based sugar system. The first option only talks about the economic sense of buying cheap sugar, not the fight against slavery. The second option is about where to buy sugar (India vs. Caribbean) but not the main claim of using boycotting as a tool. The third option is contrary to the passage's message as the passage shows opposition to slavery through boycotting. The fourth option, "Boycotting was an effective and persuasive tool in the fight against slavery" aligns with the examples of boycotting (New England women's boycott and English people's sugar boycott) used to fight systems related to slavery (in the case of the American Revolution, it was a tax - related system that was somewhat connected to the colonial - economic system which had elements of exploitation, and the sugar boycott was directly against slave - produced sugar).

Answer:

Boycotting was an effective and persuasive tool in the fight against slavery.