New York City Draft Riotspull it on the timeline
Event
A major uprising and race riot in New York City following the institution of the 1863 Enrollment Act, the country's first national conscription law. Tensions between the city's white and black population had further been amplified by white fears of added competition to the labor market following emancipation. Though the riots were eventually suppressed, many black homes, abolitionist institutions, public buildings, and community areas were destroyed in the process.
filed under 1863
Runs throughAmerican Civil War