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 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. Gladstone's 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.

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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 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. Gladstone's 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.

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'Gladstone asked the shipping company to provide workers.'

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## Step 1The first step in solving this problem is to understand the central idea of the passage. The central idea is that the source of cheap labor on sugar plantations changed from enslaved people to indentured Indians.## Step 2Next, we need to identify the evidence provided in the text that supports this central idea. The evidence is the actions of John Gladstone, who, after the abolition of slavery, asked a shipping company to provide workers from India to labor on his plantations.## Step 3Finally, we need to evaluate the other options provided. The fact that the sugar plantations depended on cheap labor and had a 24-hour cycle are general statements about the sugar plantations and do not provide specific evidence about the change in labor source. The exhibition of Quamina's chained body is a historical fact about the treatment of slaves but does not directly support the central idea of the change in labor source.

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