Essay On History is a Weapon

History is indeed a weapon that can be used against people; this is because it shows the good and the bad sides of a situation. During the fight for independence in 1760s, the only people who knew the importance of war were the rich people. the poor people did not know why they were fighting, in fact they fought so that they can finally gain a social status in the society and be noticed. This is the reason as to why after the way, they would match to the government offices to ask for their pay, yet independence had been achieved. To them independence was not merely enough.
After the attainment of independence the government was meant for the rich only, this is because in order to contend for governorship or to be a senator one had to own several slaves and have some amount of money. At the time America was a multi racial country still because it had Indians, black people, mullatos and whites, but the fight for independence was only for the white people. This is because in most of the southern states, the military would be divided into two, one part to fight while the other to guard the slaves lest they think of escaping.
Both the American military and the British military would use slaves to fight each other. In some states black people were completely not allowed to be part of the war while in other the British army out of fear of being out numbered promised the black slaves to set them free if they joined and fought against the American army.
Discrimination was at its peak, blacks were considered as only slaves and women were not even represented in the constitution. At that time the constitution and declaration for independence for meant for only the white male. This is the reason as to why even up to the rest of the people have achieved recognition by forming movements and by fighting. For women there is feminism, for black people and the Indians there is the civil war, they had to do something forceful in order for the constitution to recognize them.
Work citedZinn Howard: History is a weapon: A people history of the United States, web. 18th June 2013