Does Zinn succeed in offering up the "have not" perspective? How? Zinn argues that the US government supported slavery despite the Civil War. What evidence does he use to support this assertion? What happened to the former slaves during Reconstruction that supports the idea that the white ruling elite (the haves) cared little about the plight of the former slaves? Why was slavery supported by the US in the first place? W.E.B. Dubois suggested that modern industrial capitalism creates a different form of slavery. What does he mean?