When is someone ever going to write a book about all of the white people who fou

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.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 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.

Many books and other memorials already exist. Why they are often ignored is another question. The recent movie "Amazing Grace" is part of it, as is the song itself, a hymn known round the world.

The single greatest human rights campaign ever was the Royal Navy's determined, long-term blockade of the West African coast to prevent slave ships from reaching the new world that enforced England's banishment of the stave trade, and later (1833) any form of slavery.
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Any Civil War book is about what you say. It's just not politically correct to come out and say what you are asking for.

Underground Railroad. There are tons of information out there about it.

John brown and his raiders harpers ferry WV. your grandparents built the them? dam that was before the civil war. so they would have built them in the 1850s early 1860s?

maybe your great grandparents did?

You have to remember not many people cared about slavery, many whites from the north liked slavery cause they didnt want the blacks to be freed and come north and take jobs from the immagrents who worked cheap, but they could work cheaper.

there are books just look at your local library

There's plenty of historical information about whites fighting against slavery. Many white politicians were fierce abolitionists - especially leaders like John Quincy Adams.