When is someone ever going to write a book about all of the white people who fought against slavery ?

Question

My grandparents built slave escape routes in West Virgina, risked their lives. Many of my family died in the Civil War fighting against slavery. You never ever hear about the white people who died and sacrificed and fought against slavery, or the sacrifices the whites made fighting against other whites to free the slaves. Over half a million whites died in the civil war to free slaves. I do not see them honored anywhere or even a holiday marking their sacrifice.

Answer 1

Someone asked a similar question here about a month ago.  The responses might interest you:  http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

There have been books written, also books that link the fight for civil rights AND women's rights (remember women didn't have many rights back then either!).

Curious to see what other responses you get to this!

Answer 2

Slavery was not made illegal in the U.S.A. until 1865 - the year the U.S. Civil War ended. This was entrenched in the 13th amendment. Don't forget many northerners fighting in the Civil War were slaveholders themselves, to say the war was fought against slavery is to fall under the spell of good old American bullshit. To say the northern forces were fighting against slavery, or would have claimed to be doing so at the time, is contrary to fact.

Answer 3

Black people would think thats racist!!!!!

The same reason their isn't a white history month, although it's funny that black history month is celebrated in the shortest month.

ha.

Answer 4

bush

Answer 5

i agree. al sharpton  and jessie jackson have most of the black people in this country believing all of us white people are racist.we did fight to free the slaves but the problem was , they still were not given all their rights for about anothe hundred years.now that they have been ,i think its time for all this bigotry to come to an end .