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#DYK that one of the largest and most racially charged riots in America occurred in 1863? Saturday, on "Lectures in History" City University of New York professor emeritus Joshua Brown looks at the New York City Draft Riots. Watch on C-SPAN 2 at 8 & 11pm ET. https://www.c-span.org/video/?514516-2/1863-york-city-draft-riots | American History TV

🔥 “New York in Flames: The 1863 Draft Riots and the War Within the North” 🔥 The New York City Draft Riots of July 1863 stand among the darkest chapters of Northern home-front unrest during the Civil War. Sparked by anger over the newly enacted draft law, which allowed wealthier men to pay a $300 commutation fee to avoid service, working-class citizens—mostly Irish immigrants—saw it as a war fought for the rich but paid for the poor. When the names of draftees were drawn on July 13, the city ex