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History, 05.05.2020 04:35 delaneyjane1599

Read the passage and study the image from Sugar Changed
the World,
How does the illustration best help the reader understand the
text?
Slaves were given long, sharp machetes, which would be
their equipment --but for some also their weapons- until the
harvest was done. The cutters worked brutal, seemingly
endless shifts during the harvest for the hungry mills
crushed cane from four in the afternoon to ten the next
morning, stopping only in the midday heat. Slaves had to
make sure there was just enough cane to feed the turning
wheels during every one of those eighteen hours. They
worked in teams, a man slashing the cane, a woman binding
every twelve stalks into a bundle. According to one report
from 1689, each pair of workers was expected to cut and
bind 4,200 stalks a day. Exactly how much they cut
depended on how much their mill could handle the cutting
must never get a day ahead of the grinding, for then the
sugar cane would dry up,
The illustration helps the reader recognize how teams cut
and bundled sugar cane.
The illustration helps the reader determine why sugar
cane had to be cut so quickly,
The illustration helps the reader observe the hot weather
on sugar plantations,
The illustration helps the reader identity sugar-harvesting
techniques still used today,

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