Draft Riots Vignettes
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Date:
August 8, 1863
Creator:
The New York Illustrated News
Rights:
New York Historical Society
These vignettes provide a vivid picture of mob mentality.
Mob leaders harangue the crowd--composed of a motley crew of men and women--inciting them to violence.
Violence erupts when the crowd captures a black man and drags him along the street with a noose around his neck.
Given the frenzy of the mob, police have a hard time restoring law and order and must themselves resort to violence.
Mob leaders harangue the crowd--composed of a motley crew of men and women--inciting them to violence.
Violence erupts when the crowd captures a black man and drags him along the street with a noose around his neck.
Given the frenzy of the mob, police have a hard time restoring law and order and must themselves resort to violence.
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“Draft Riots Vignettes,” Black Gotham Archive, accessed July 10, 2018, https://archive.blackgothamarchive.org/items/show/84/.