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In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the areas. Over three hundreds of years later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens viewed as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in keeping however the color of their skin and the economic injustices they battled - yet the former is what identifies them in America's awareness. In A Dreadful Deceit, award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of these two men and four other African People in the usa to reveal the way the concept of contest has obscured the factors that truly split and unite us. Expansive, visionary, and provocative, A Dreadful Deceit explodes the pernicious fiction that has formed American history.