Slavery Without Submission Summary

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Slavery without submission means that those who did not openly submit to being slaves would put up a fight against the slave holders. Emancipation without freedom means that although the slaves were freed, people didn’t bother enforcing the laws that would ensure their freedom. Howard Zinn wrote this to explain slavery before and after the Civil War. It describes the government’s support for slavery until Abraham Lincoln attempted to end it. It also explains how slaves were kept as slaves by whipping, lynching, separating family members, etc.
“It would take either a full-scale slave rebellion or a full-scale war to end such a deeply entrenched system.” Zinn expresses that in order for slavery to end, something must occur and have a large impact on the United States in order to bring about a change. In other words, for society to become a slavery-free country, something large had to occur, such as the Civil War. There were a few attempts to end slavery before the war, such as John Brown’s rebellion, which he was given a death sentence for. He was executed with approval from the national government for his unsuccessful takeover of …show more content…

When the Republican nominee Ulysses Grant won the presidential election, it opened up doors for blacks. They were elected into southern state legislatures and the US Senate & Congress. Black women also helped to rebuild the postwar south; black children went to school. Although it seemed as if the freed men were on the path to being equal, the Africans were still opposed and dependent on whites for work and supplies. The south used power to form racist groups that caused terror among black societies. It wasn’t long until history would repeat itself. Because laws were not enforced that blacks were free and equal, they were again treated like they used to be in

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