Davis, tony journal Zinn ch 9

In this article the author starts off by talking about how the slave population is growing very rapidly and that everyone is going along with it "the government, army,laws, courts." everyone pretty much. Also early in the article their are talks about white abolishinest in the north about not ending slavery and that someone was hanged in the south because they tried to put a small scale violence together to stop slavery. The couple of things that i got out of this article which lead me to believe is that zinn is trying to go through and tell everything that lead up to the civil war and really caused it to happen by everything going on in the north and all the things read about going on in the south by the notherners.

Zinn was trying to say his arguments by using the writtings and lectures of other black people in the north like Fredrick Douglas and David Walker who printed many anti-slave articles and lectures. Also he tells stories of some of the major rebellios that happened all though there were many, but some were more impactful then others and also not as common. One was more impactful then others like the one in New Orleans which was probably the biggest with more the 500 slaves and growing as the destroyed plantations after plantation and finally stopped by the US army and militia. there were others that he mentioned like Nat Turner and their rebellion and how 65 people died. Other then that there were not anymore rebellions mentioned. He then talked about Harriet Tubman and her time escaping and helping other escape on the underground railroad. How she made 19 trips to help her fellow slaves to get out of the south and into the north or Canada.

1. How come more people did not adopt Tubman's wayof thinking by either escaping or dying.
2. Why did it take so long for the government to step in and stop slavery.
3. Why wasnt there a stricter law when they made it illegal to bring in slaves.

This article was not that shocking because already read a little bit about it in previous history classes and learned about Douglas and Tubman and their contributions to the efforts in the stopping of slavery. Couple of things that did though was when they talked about the school in Cinncinatti and the little 7 year old girl asking questions about slavery that was shocking because a 7 year old having questions like that showed how impactful this was to the whole country. Also when the one lady Fanny Kemble a famous actress of a plantation owner. After the Brunswick canal was built in Georgia. She said that "the irish are not only quarllers,rioters,fighters, and drinkers they are passionate, impulsive, and warm-hearted, so they may show passion to the slave so they cannot work together on the canal." This was shocking because they thought that working togerher they might rebell together and could start something that could jeperdize the south.