"buck breaking" meaning in English

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          "text": "Slaves were subject to a process called “buck breaking,” a method that was used by slave owners to strike fear in the observing slaves.",
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          "text": "As a means of breaking us psychologically, during slavery, white slave masters' implemented the “buck breaking” method.",
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          "text": "We are playing the devil's game without his infernal name in this good for nothing God forsaken buck breaking society.",
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        "The act of publicly punishing a male slave, typically by flogging him, and in some cases subsequently sexually assaulting or raping him in front of other slaves, in order to humiliate him."
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        "(offensive) The act of publicly punishing a male slave, typically by flogging him, and in some cases subsequently sexually assaulting or raping him in front of other slaves, in order to humiliate him."
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