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The book Sugar Changed the World gives the reader a very informational tone throughout the events occurring in the story. The author's perspective and purpose for writing Sugar Changed the World is to tell a story of how sugar impacted the world negatively and positively,and they respond to conflicting viewpoints by addressing the facts and proving the historians wrong. The writer informs the reader about the positive impact of sugar and how it changed the world because in the book it said "The end of slavery was a great step for human rights”. “On August 1, 1838 all slaves would be free” (pg 104). So the slaves used to have to work on sugar plantations for long hours and the process of creating this product was brutal hard labor for the slaves. The slaves got something good out of it because they were set free and they no longer had to work on sugar plantations and it was a great first step for them to live a better life than they were living at first on the plantations. But before they were set free they also had the negative impacts of sugar even though it …show more content…

No one interviewed Africans who labored in the sugar fields to ask them about their hard labor. “They were meant to work and die; this evidence was found on” (Pg 54). Slaves were just worked and didn’t get no credit for the work they did because the slave owners didn’t care about them; they just worked them to death and only cared about the sugar harvest. This shows the slaves couldn’t speak for themselves and tell people how badly it was on a sugar plantation because the slave owner didn’t want them to tell how creating this product could kill you and how it could badly injure you. Also the people tried to cover up the truth and lie about what was really happening back then but the truth was uncovered by a

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