... blossomed from the labors of a povished race. Through beatings, mental abuse, trickery and all-out cruelty, White Americans worked to control African Americans in every aspect. An economical control of free labor diminished any ideas of liberation for African Americans. Peter Wood, author of "The Dream Deferred," Peter Sterns, author of "Culture, Conflict, and Community," and Olaudah Equiano, author of The ... 's agricultural skills to exploit a black man controlling black men (divide and conquer); instead, Knollock acknowledged the tyranny and required the other bondsmen to "do the mini...

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