Theresha Elmore
20 March 2006
History
Open Response
Zinn's Color Line
Howard Zinn, the author of A People's History Of The United States, introduces the fact that there isn't a country in world history that racism didn't occur. How did it start? How might it end? Or is it possible for whites and blacks to live together without hatred? One might argue that racism doesn't vary, but according to the Color Line it does. In fact, the point is that the elements of this web are historical, not "natural."
The Virginians had learned many things from the Indians. But in return they realized that they couldn't enslave them like Columbus had done. The Indians were tough, resourceful, defiant, and at home in the woods. Very few Virginians survived the
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"Starving Times. But they felt inferior to the Indians, even though, they taught them how to grow tobacco, which helped gain them wealth. The Virginians found that tobacco was a precious cargo, when......
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