Реферат: The Opressed Essay Research Paper The Oppressed
loud, against England. ?[The bind of loyalty] was the language of
liberty and equality, which could unite just enough whites to fight a
Revolution against England, without ending either slavery or inequality?
(58). Zinn is absolutely correct in seeing the ulterior motives of our
founding fathers; they realized that splitting from England would be
good for them financially, socially, and politically. What they did was
harness the people?s anger against them and used it, quite ironically,
for their own advancement.
Ultimately, for the first 250 years of America?s history, there was
oppression and class warfare on varying scales that are traditionally
ignored or unemphasized by traditional history texts, but Zinn
masterfully shows the reader are major and influencial parts of American
history. To ignore the plight of the conquored and oppressed is to
ignore a part of history that cannot be ignored.