Riot
“Four terrible days in July of 1863 that would leave hundreds dead and injured and forever change the face of New York City. How could this happen in the largest city of North America? And what would it mean for not only the participants but also for generations to follow?The New York City Draft Riots nearly changed the course of American history. They definitely changed the hearts and minds of the people who lived and worked in our nation’s busiest city. But how could so much blood run down the... streets of Broadway and Fifth Avenue when the real conflict, the Civil War, was being fought hundreds of miles away?There is what we study as “history,” and then there is the history behind that history, which we must know to understand what happened. The causes of the New York City Draft Riots begin in 1619, when the first Africans were brought across the Atlantic as slaves. These unfortunates, captured along the West Coast of Africa, worked in the cotton fields of Georgia and Alabama, in the rice paddies of South Carolina, and in the tobacco fields of Virginia and Kentucky.MoreLess
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