The New Year’s Tradition The noisy plaza was bustling as people gathered around the city’s oldest toy store. At the start of each year, the store displayed a magical winter scene in its enormous front window. The tradition began with the store's original owner, Margot Thistle, in her desire to keep the hope and excitement of the New Year alive. The yearly display inspired many customers to visit the store. It was a joyous tradition passed down to Margot’s daughter. However, Margot's daughter began to skimp on costs. Instead of creating a winter wonderland display, she featured only the more popular toys of the year, hoping to sell them in larger quantities. But the opposite happened. Instead of selling more toys, the store lost customers and fell into disrepair. Margot eventually took back control of the store from her daughter. With the help of her grandson, Andre, she rebuilt the toy store and its New Year’s display into a fantastical delight. As the sun set on the town square, Margot and Andre prepared to pull back the curtain on the display. Flashbulbs went off, social media began buzzing, and the two toy store owners smiled from ear-to-ear. Margot and Andre were thrilled to once again give their community a magical winter experience at the start of each year.

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.