Eventually numbering some 50,000 people, the mob terrorized neighborhoods on the East Side of New York for three days looting scores of stores. Blacks were the targets of most attacks on citizens; several lynchings and beatings occurred. In addition, a black church and orphanage were burned to the ground.
But so did the New York Draft Riots
Willing to fight for Uncle Sam", but not "for Uncle Sambo", said one Pennsylvania newspaper. First Lincoln freed the slaves and now he was conscripting Northern men into the army and forcing them to fight and die to make his proclamation a reality. Thus reasoned many white workers in the North who were concerned about free blacks competing for their jobs. The unfair draft laws caused deep resentment throughout the North, and in the summer of 1863 protests and outbreaks of violence were common in virtually every Northern state. Secret societies were formed to organize resistance to the draft, and draft officers were assaulted.
Interesting quote from a Pennsylvania newspaper. Tell me, is Pennsylvania in the South? I forget. I thought it was over slavery and the utter despise that only the evil Southerners showed towards blacks.
You forget the south frequently published such things in the North. That is because the North had freedom of the press, which the South did not. It is also true that the North had freedom of speech, which the south did not, and that if a Northerner had such views he was free to hold them and express them. As for the violence, you are over rating it. In any case, for every black who or was abused in the New York riots, there were litteraly tens of thousands who experienced such racism in the south.
Interesting quote from a Pennsylvania newspaper. Tell me, is Pennsylvania in the South? I forget. I thought it was over slavery and the utter despise that only the evil Southerners showed towards blacks.
Illiteracy and ignorance were long standards for education in the south. These things we northerners eventually just came to accept, particularly after the KKK ran off all the teachers we paid to go down and help y'all out. During the war and afterward, racist feelings were strong in the north. This is hardly surprising as for decades before the war southerners had migrated from the south to the North both to be free and to have higher standards of living as well a good education for their children. They brought with them a deep resentment for what had happened to the south as a result of slavery. Northerners who supported Abolition and equal rights were a minority, and were principally in the New England states where they had long before established that blacks were fully capable of prospering under freedom and of acquiring significantly higher levels of education than southern whites ever saw, then or now.