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New York Draft Riots

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New York Draft Riots
anticonscription feelings resulted in anarchy and bloodshed (1863). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 429]
See : Riot


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00 Hardcover F128 Although sparked by the Union military draft, the predominantly Irish immigrant participants in New York draft riots (called "the devil's own work" by poet Walt Whitman) quickly turned much of their wrath upon the city's African American population, but to call the affair simply a race riot would perhaps over-simplify the political, ethnic, class, and other social conflicts that played out in the riots and their aftermath.
An Eyewitness Account of the New York Draft Riots, [from John Torrey to Asa Gray], July, 1863.
 
 
 
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