Which excerpt from the land, part 1 best supports the claim that many formerly enslaved people were not completely free or equal after the war? seeing that we were a long way from our georgia home and both of us being strangers here in mississippi, the two of us depended on each other and became as family. mitchell and his family and the other boys lived on my daddy's land, and i figured my daddy with one word could put a stop to mitchell and the rest. but my daddy said, “what you expect me to do about it? ” the thomases, like all the other families who lived on my daddy's land, were sharecroppers, and because of that fact, they were obliged to take heed of whatever my daddy or my brothers said. in the beginning the two of us didn't get along at all. fact to business, there was a time it seemed like to me mitchell thomas lived just to taunt me. there were other boys too who picked on me.

The part that best supports the claim that many formerly enslaved people were not completely free or equal after the war is:

The Thomases, like all the other families who lived on my daddy's land, were sharecroppers, and because of that fact, they were obliged to take heed of whatever my daddy or my brothers said.

Explanation:

Mitchell and Paul become best of friends in 'The Land'  by 'Mildred D. Taylor' though they were of different as black and white respectively. Slavery was so much rooted in people that whites exploited blacks.

In the given excerpt, Mitchell and other families lived on Paul's daddy's land and he never used his power to suppress them. But still they were not equal as the lines says that the families who lived on his daddy's land were obliged  to take heed of whatever his father said.

Mildred DeLois Taylor is a Newbery Award-winning young adult novelist from the United States. She is well known for her Logan family series novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

The Thomas's, like all the other families who lived on my daddy's land, were sharecroppers, and because of that fact, they were obliged to take heed of whatever my daddy or my brothers said.

In "The Land", by 'Mildred D. Taylor,' Mitchell and Paul become best friends despite being of different races. Because slavery was so deeply ingrained in people, whites exploited blacks.

Mitchell and other families resided on Paul's father's land in the extract, and he never used his power to keep them out. However, they were not equal because, according to the lines, the families that lived on his father's land were obligated to follow his father's orders.

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