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 harvest to mill? in 1838, 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.
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:

To support the central idea that the labor source changed from enslaved people to indentured Indians, we need evidence showing the shift. Let's analyze each option:

• Option 1: "The sugar plantations depended on cheap labor." This is a general statement and doesn't show the shift from enslaved to indentured labor. Eliminate.
• Option 2: "The sugar plantations had a 24 - hour cycle." This is about the plantation's work cycle, not the labor source shift. Eliminate.
• Option 3: "Gladstone asked the shipping company to provide workers." The passage says Gladstone (whose sugar estate previously used enslaved labor) asked a shipping company to provide laborers from India (indentured Indians). This shows the shift in labor source. Correct.
• Option 4: "Gladstone exhibited the chained body of Quamina." This is about exhibiting an enslaved person, not showing the shift to indentured labor. Eliminate.

Answer:

C. Gladstone asked the shipping company to provide workers.