Zinn-Chapter 9

There is no doubt that slavery among blacks was a hard thing to abolish. Throughout Zinn Chapter 9 he talks about the ways slaves were treated and also all of the attempts at abolishing slavery that failed. Until Aberham Lincon's drive to abolish slavery which was successful. Everytime I read about slavery I see how hard slave owners were on their slaves. With cold blodded hearts, they broke up wifes, husbands, and children. Throughout the history of slavery, their was many schemes that were believed to be successful in the abolishing of it.

The difference between living in the north and south at this time was amazing. In the north blacks were free and there was no slavery. Well, in the south it was the exact opposite with slavery every where and farming plantaions every where. The first rebellion from the slaves which put fear into owners was David Walker's pamphlet "Walker's Appeal". Walker's pamphlet led owners to give rewards on the capture of Walker either dead or alive. Ten years after, Nat Turner's rebellion took place. Turner's rebellion was a rebellion against ship workers. Hundreds of slaves were being shiped by Creole, slaves overpowered the crew, killed one of them and sailed to the West Indies. The next rebellion in the south, towards the abolishment of slavery was John Brown's. Brown, Harriet Tubman, and Fredrick Douglass all took part in planning missions that would make slaves throuhgout the south to revolt. The plan did not work and slavery in the south seemed to be unbeatable. That is until Abraham Lincon started to contribute to the effort. Lincon with such highly though of standards finally got the job done with slavery. It was a very hard accomplishment but it got done and now Lincon is looked at as arguably the best leader in this great counrty's history. Up until Lincons accomplishment, slaves were trying to run away to the underground rail road which lead into Canada. Slaves that ran away and got caught, got beat sometimes to death. It truely was unbelieveable the ways slaves were treated by their slave owners.

Two discussion question:
1.) Why was Turner's rebellion scheme so unsuccessful.
2.) Do you think slavery will ever come back into America and be such a driving force as once before.

I liked this reading although it was dry and hard to understand at sometimes but it was interesting to learn about the different schemes to eliminate slavery in the south. Most were unsuccessful but more importantly one was finally successful. I did not know of the slaves that bebelled against the ship crew. That was a big deal that we did not learn in school which I would have liked to know while learing about slavery.