Slavery, the American Revolution, the Mexican-American war, and the oppression of women are all critical events in our history that all equally highlight the inconsistencies of our country. ... Chapter Two, of "A Peoples History of the United States," by Howard Zinn, begins with the arrival of a slave ship in North America. ... Here we begin to consider the first inconsistency presented in chapter two. ... When the quality of life did not improve by migrating to America, trouble began to brew between the colonists and the homeland, eventually leading to the American Revolution. ... In chapter...

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He is best known for his revised assessments of three central chapters in the American experience: slavery, the coming of the Civil War, and Southern Reconstruction. ... Kenneth Stampp says, "Nevertheless, whatever methodological or conceptual strategies a historian may devise, his search for answers to questions concerning slave behavior and personality must begin with the accumulation of a reasonable amount of empirical data.... Herbert Aptheker was an American historian and political activist. ... Aptheker examined slaves and their mentality toward bondage in American Negro Slave Revol...

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