Chapter 9 Zinn Slavery without Submission and Emancipation without Freedom

In Howard Zinn’s chapter 9 Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom, his thesis is that black people still had slavery even though they were free and they were set free but had restrictions on what they could do.
African Americans had a tough time living in the 1800’s. They had to go though more brutal times than most people could say they have today. As the tobacco plantations grew they turned into cotton lands where more slaves were needed. As they slaves were being illegally imported, they started to revolt against the slave owners. One of the largest occurred in New Orleans. In the 1850’s slaves started to run away to Canada and Mexico. They used the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman, one of the most famous slaves for making numerous trips back and fourth with having the chance to being caught. She freed 300 slaves knowing she could go back to being slave for the risk of freeing other slaves. In1860, Lincoln was elected president. In 1861 he declared that all slaves to be free. Zinn says “When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in January 1863, it declared slaves free in those areas still fighting against the Union and said nothing about slaves behind Union lines.” This means people in the Union still could have slaves because they were not fighting. As the blacks joined the Union army, whites became angry for having to sacrifice different things. They had to join the army because they were drafted because the rich paid their way out of being drafted. With this, the whites started to go town to town killing black people. One white person was heard saying, “If we are got to be killed up for the N word, then we kill everyone in this town.” This is saying they are unwilling to fight for black people and would rather kill the side they are on rather than fight for them. Since the states still fighting did not get rid of their slaves, the war produced slaves in select states to rebel and destroy the plantations they were on. As blacks were starting to be respected and get into the government, whites began to rebel on blacks. The Ku Kulx Klan was formed. A white supremacist group who hated blacks and went around killing them and raping them. As blacks started to get jobs they were only paid 55 cents. In the south the plantations owners basically tricked the black workers by not paying them but with “orders” that the black worker could only use where the planter owned.
Why were so many people angry about what Abraham Lincoln did freeing the slaves? I think Abraham Lincoln did the right thing. African Americans did not deserve to be treated unfairly being a citizen. They deserved the same rights as whites. Just because they have a different color of skin they were treated unfairly and Abraham Lincoln saw that they are the same even thought the look different from him.
I think African Americans had a terrible like in the 1800’s and early 1900’s. Today there are still racism problems where blacks are being treated unfairly. Racism needs to stop and everyone needs to be treated fairly especially in the court system. People should follow the laws and respect everyone for who they are not by what they look like.