What is the authors’ purpose in this passage?...........................................over his bosses, despite sharing his evidence?

Question: What is the authors’ purpose in this passage? to inform the reader about the daily routines and tasks of workers on the sugar plantations to inform the reader about bechu’s role in proving that the plantation owners’ tactics were illegal to inform the reader that certain jobs on the plantation took too long to be finished in one day to inform the reader that bechu was powerless over his bosses, despite sharing his evidence?

The purpose of the author is that inform the reader about the daily routines and tasks of workers on the sugar plantations. T inform the reader about Bechus role in proving that the plantation owners tactics were illegal. In the given excerpt taken from  sugar changed the world the purpose that the author aims to serve is to educate the readers about the significance of bechu in demonstrating the illegality of plantation tactics.