The Bloody Week! Riot, Murder & Arson, a Full Account of this Wholesale Outrage on Life and Property.
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- Title:
- The Bloody Week! Riot, Murder & Arson, a Full Account of this Wholesale Outrage on Life and Property.
- Description:
- White pro-slavery Democrats charged that the conflict was a “rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight.” At a time when annual working-class wages were often below $500, the $300 fee to avoid the draft was well out of reach for many Union men. In addition, the Democratic Party had warned immigrants and working-class whites that they would have to compete for jobs with the Black men who would be freed by the war. Protests erupted in the North, the most violent being in New York City. On July 13, 1863, an angry mob looted businesses, burned buildings, and hunted down Black residents. New York’s 7th Regiment were called up from Gettysburg to quell the riot. The Bloody Week! is a dramatic account “accurately prepared from sources by eye witnesses.”
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- Photograph by Vincent Dilio. Courtesy of David M. Rubenstein.
- Citation:
- The Bloody Week! Riot, Murder & Arson, a Full Account of this Wholesale Outrage on Life and Property. New York, Coutant & Baker, [1863].