Which claim do both passages support? Read the two passados from Sugar Changed the world,
The abolitionists were brilliant. They created the most
effective public relations campaign in history, inventing
techniques that we use to this day. When he spoke,
Clarkson brandished whips and handcuffs used on slaves,
he published testimonials from sailors and ship doctors
who described the atrocities and punishments on slave
ships. When Olaudah Eguiano published his memoir, he
educated his readers about the horrors of the slave trade,
And then, when the English began to understand what
slavery really was, Clarkson and others organized what we
would call a boycott of "the blood-sweetened beverage"
Slave labor was valuable because it produced cheap sugar
that everyone wanted to buy. But if people stopped buying
that sugar, the whole slave system would collapse. In the
years leading up to the American Revolution, the women of
New England refused to buy English products and English
tea. The loss of income made London rescind some of the
Abolitionists used powerful speeches and presentations
to engage people and persuade them to join the
abolitionists' cause,
People objected to the cruelty of inwoluntary servitude,
but King George III had economic reasons for ending the
trading of enslaved people,
Most people in England did not care whether thousands
of enslaved people suffered as long as sugar remained
plentiful,
The abolitionists' tremendous efforts showed that
making moral arguments to support political movements
were not successful
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