What is the most correct analysis linking demand for sugar coffee and tobacco with slavery?

Correct answer: European consumption increased demand for forced labour in plantations

The direct answer is A: European demand increased the need for forced labour on plantations. Sugar, coffee and tobacco became valuable goods in European markets. To grow and process them on a large scale in colonies, plantation owners needed a very large and controlled workforce. Enslaved Africans were forced to provide this labour under brutal conditions. The chain is: European consumption increased demand; demand made plantations profitable; profitable plantations sought cheap, controlled labour; the slave trade supplied that labour. Option A is correct because it connects consumer demand, colonial plantations and forced labour. Option B is wrong because these crops did not free enslaved people; their production usually strengthened exploitation. Option C is wrong because these crops were closely connected with colonial economies. Option D is wrong because the Estates General was called in the context of France’s financial and political crisis, not directly by these crops. Memory cue: plantation profits often rested on forced labour.