Please summarize chapters 6-12 of A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

These seven
chapters cover a variety of different subjects.  The only thing that they really have in common
is that they all tend to support s general thesis.  In these chapters (as in other chapters of
the book), Zinn is arguing that the United States has been a country that has oppressed various
members of its society.  In this answer, I will give only a brief summary of each chapter since
no more will fit in the space provided.  Please follow the link below for more extensive
summaries.

Chapter 6 is entitled The Intimately Oppressed.  The idea of
this chapter is that the white men of Revolutionary America tended to oppress two groupsAfrican
Americans and womenwith whom they had close relations.  Zinn argues that white American males
used revolutionary egalitarianto achieve their own political ends even as they refused to treat
blacks and women as equals.  He points out that this treatment continued long after the
Revolutionary Era.

In Chapter 7,...

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