The relation between popular consumption goods in Europe and slaves' suffering leads to which analysis?

Correct answer: European consumption was linked with colonial exploitation

The governing idea is that apparently ordinary consumption can be connected to distant systems of exploitation. Goods such as sugar and coffee were popular in European households, but their production in many colonies depended on plantations using enslaved labour. Tracing the commodity chain—from plantation labour to processing, shipping, sale and consumption—shows that European prosperity and consumer habits were tied to colonial violence. Option A gives this structural analysis. Option B is wrong because consumption did not itself abolish slavery; option C wrongly claims that it granted political rights; and option D ignores the commercial links joining European markets with colonial plantations.