How do the authors use historical evidence to support
their claim in this passage?
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Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
By the late 1700s, Saint Domingue (what is now Haiti)
was the world center of sugar. So many sugar
plantations dotted the landscape that slaves called
commanders managed other slaves. On the night of
August 14, 1791, commanders from the richest sugar
plantations in Saint Domingue gathered in a place called
Alligator Woods and swore a solemn oath. They would
rise up against their white owners, "and listen to the
voice of liberty which speaks in the hearts of all of us."
That voice told them to destroy everything related to
sugar. Sugar made the Africans slaves, so sugar must
be wiped off the island, now a vast sugar factory to the
world.
O They use primary-source quotations to show that
enslaved people in Saint Domingue were willing to
destroy property to gain their freedom.
O They use secondary-source quotations to show the
plan that the commanders devised in Alligator Woods
in August of 1791.
O They use primary-source information to describe the
role of commanders on sugar plantations in Saint
Domingue.
They use secondary-source information to describe
Toussaint's plan to enslave all the people working on
the sugar plantations.
By the end of August, the French colony was in flames.
So many cane fields were on fire that the air was filled
with "a rain of fire composed of burning bits of cane
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