Sugar Changed the World Part 3

Part A. Determine all the reasons why Madame Villeneuve viewed Pauline as her property? 

•  She had been an enslaved woman from the Caribbean. 
• She had joined a convent and had become a nun. 

Part B. What evidence supports the answer to Part A? 

• “slave owners fought back.” 
• “but when two slaves managed to reach France, he freed them-saying they became free “as soon as they    [touched] the soil” of France.” 
• “owners should be able to list their slaves as property when they arrived in France and take them with them when they left.”

Part A. What did the world of slavery exist as in the Age of Sugar? 

• An underhanded and defiant operation
• An operation that was smooth and flexible 
• A brutal, controversial affair 

Part B. Which detail best support the answer from part A?

• “the idea that all humans are equal began to spread-toppling kings, overturning governments,   transforming the entire world.”
• “The global hunger for slave-grown sugar led directly to the end of slavery.”

Part A. What was the connection between slavery and freedom? 

• Slavery 
• Sugar
•  Corn
• Owners

Part B. Which two details provide the best evidence for this connection?

• “Sugar was the connection, the tie.”
• “In order to create sugar, Europeans and colonists in the Americas destroyed Africans,…”

Which could have crippled the entire North American trade with the sugar islands in 1733? 

• storms that came up in the ocean
• Molasses Act

Which could have crippled the entire North American trade with the sugar islands in 1733? 

• the American Revolution
• Sugar Act

Part A. What were Saint Domingue’s (what is now Haiti) two oaths to accomplish since it was considered the world center of sugar? 

• Saint Domingue wanted to destroy white owners everywhere and wipe sugar off of the islands. 
• Saint Domingue wanted to stay the center of sugar so they were leaving everything as it was. 

Part B. What evidence supports these oaths? 

• “The enslaved people on Saint Domingue were not merely fighting against the terrible conditions on the   island”.
• “...the chaos in France made the English slave trade and sugar islands all the more profitable…”.
• .“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”.