Is the European ending of slavery and the American Civil War the only times in history where one racial group fought and died to free another racial group? I've been reading about slavery among the Ottomans, Zulu, Qing and Aztecs and I was wondering if something similar to the abolitionist movement in the 18th and 19th centuries had happened at any other point in any other society.
Thanks!
The union army was not a lily white institution; by the end of the Civil War about 200,000 African-Americans had donned the blue uniform; to see the Civil War as being about 'white people fighting for Black people's freedom,' reduces the agency of African-Americans in the fight to end American slavery....