CSPAN3 Lectures July 4, 2024
On the 1863 new york city draft riots. From july 13th16th, 1863, in the middle of the civil war, thousands of poor and working class why not new yorkers, incensed by equities in the new military draft, resentful about wartime hardship and enflamed by the lincoln administrations emancipation policies, looted and destroyed buildings, battled police, state militia and federal troops and brutally attack thed the citys africanamerican residents. In the century and a half since the new york city draft riots, numerous psychological lahrs, popular scholars, pular books and articles are their rated and...