American Civil War · SITE OF MEMORY ·
New York City draft riots (1863)
On the American Civil War map as “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.
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- Gettysburg and Vicksburg (chapter 8 of American Civil War)
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- The American Civil War, 1840–1877
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