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New York draft riots
13–16 Jul 1863 — Rioters against a draft the rich can buy out of ($300) turn on the city’s Black residents: at least 105 dead and a Colored Orphan Asylum burned before troops from Gettysburg restore order. The war’s hatreds did not stop at the front line. Remember.
This is one scene of Chapter 7 — The Twin Turning in The American Civil War, 1861–1865.
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