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New York City Draft Riots of 1863
This excerpt from the book "In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863" discusses the July 1863 riots in New York City that followed the enactment of a new conscription lottery law. "Throughout the week of riots [known as the Civil War Draft Riots], mobs harassed and sometimes killed blacks and their supporters and destroyed their property." From the University of Chicago Press.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/317749.html
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