Question

read the passage from sugar changed the world. 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 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. gladstones first ships, the whitby, carrying 249 passengers, and the hesperus, carrying 244, sailed for demerara in 1838. 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 central idea is about the change in labor source. The mention of Gladstone asking a shipping company for workers (indentured Indians) directly relates to the shift from enslaved labor (implied by the previous context of slavery) to indentured labor. The other options either restate general facts about sugar plantations (like depending on cheap labor or having a 24 - hour cycle) or mention an event (exhibiting Quamina's body) that is not evidence for the labor - source change.

Answer:

Gladstone asked the shipping company to provide workers.