In Craig Wilder's "Little Masters" Wilder provides a critical insight into the horrific realities of slavery in the New York and Kings County area prior to the American Revolution. By detailing the dehumanizing and disenfranchising tactics of Dutch and English slave masters, Wilder illuminates both the brutal daily struggles for slaves and the permanent impact they had on African Americans.
Wilder dismantles the misconception that slavery was a practice unique to the South by noting the characteristics particular to slavery in the East. Unlike the South's large plantation estates, slavery was a more intimate yet just as destructive affair in the East. "Kings Counties elite families held Africans as their major investments,
