Unfortunately, the author being interviewed for this piece, going along with modern obsessions, has to turn the riot into a race riot, with evil whites attacking innocent blacks as the main event.
Which did indeed happen. But the riots did not start over race, and most of those killed were not black.
Also, the notion that "black troops won the war" is pretty stupid.
Just a byproduct from an earlier post of an infantile liberal trying, desperately trying to find some example of white-rioting to counter the very, very real threat of black rioting, over virtually anything, today.
It is rather pathetic if you ask me. Liberals just don’t have the artillery to do battle on a logical and reasonable level.
That's a questionable claim.
The author also doesn’t seem to understand that even 150 years ago, New York - despite pockets are poverty - was still fairly rural. Most of NYC was concentrated in what is now Lower Manhattan.
I believe it was mostly Irish immigrants who rioted and looted and lynched. They held it against black folks that they were being conscripted to fight a war they didn’t understand. Of course, NYC was the hotbed of Copperhead activity.
Watch Gangs of New York for a version of these events.
It is also very important to note that some of the major New York newspapers had been purchased by rabid “Copperheads”, northern Democrats bitterly opposed to the war, who used those papers to stimulate rioters as much as possible.
Copperheads damaged the Union war effort by fighting the draft, encouraging desertion, and forming conspiracies to undermine the war effort. They talked of helping Confederate prisoners of war seize their camps and escape. They sometimes met with Confederate agents and took money. The Confederacy encouraged their activities whenever possible.
Importantly, the Copperheads were radicals, mostly pro-slavery, and distinguishable from the “Butternuts”, who were more pacifistic.
Mayor Opdyke to the Common Council July 27, 1863
Just Democrats acting as they always do. KKK, Jim Crow laws, anti-civil rights, etc.
And to the NSA trolls, FU.
Also pretty silly is mentioning all the battles/revolts in NYC without mentioning any of the Revolutionary War battle.
He equates it with Stonewall as well. Sick.
Strangely there seems to be no mention of Tammany Hall of the of the Democrat party and its’ roll in the riots.
Nobody wanted to fight for the old Whig Lincoln, the Africans or his Yankee Banditos. Should have been forced from office before he attacked SC!