New York City Draft Riots of 1863


















In September of 1862, President Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation. This was to take effect on January 1, 1863; this document was what freed the slaves in states that were still in rebellion with the Union. At the time the Emancipation Proclamation was not what New Yorkers wanted to see embraced. In March of 1863, a form of a stricter draft law was formed. The law required all male citizens between twenty and thirty-five and all unmarried men between thirty-five and forty-five years of age were required to join the military. A system was set up by the federal government that entered all the eligible men into a lottery. But there were ways of getting out of the lottery pick, either you could pay a fee of three hundred dollars which was an extremely large amount at that time, or you could pay a substitute to take your place. Blacks, who were not considered citizens, were exempt from the draft.......

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Title: New York City Draft Riots Of 1863
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