jul 13, 1863 - NYC draft riots
Description:
3 days long, city burned | poor/middle class (mostly irish) are mad that rich can pay $300 to get out of the draft, feels unfair | escalated into an assault on the city's black population, ending in mob lynchings | quelled by Union troops, but 100+ people had died already |NOTE: Draft issue was also occuring even more severely in Confederacy; "twenty negro provision" exempted one male for every 20 slaves on plantation, releasing owners / overseers --> yeoman's war
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Date:
jul 13, 1863
Now
~ 163 years ago