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The Devil's Own Work : The Civil War Draft Riots...by Barnet Schecter - SIGNED
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780802714398
- Book Title
- Devil's Own Work : the Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America
- Publisher
- Walker & Company
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Item Weight
- 28.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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On July 4, 1863, Robert E. Lee and his Confederate army retreated in tatters from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the Union began its march to ultimate victory in the Civil War. Nine days later, the largest riots in American history broke out on the streets of New York City, nearly destroying in four days the financial, industrial, and commercial hub of the nation. Northerners suspected a Confederate plot, carried out by local "Copperhead" sympathizers; however, the reality was more complex and far-reaching, exposing fault lines of race and class still present in America today. Angered by the Emancipation Proclamation, issued six months earlier, and by Abraham Lincoln's imposition of the first federal military draft in U. S. history, which exempted those who could pay $300, New York's white underclass, whipped up by its conservative Democratic leaders, raged against the powerful currents of social change embodied by Lincoln's Republican administration. What began as an outbreak against draft offices soon turned into a horrifying mob assault on upper-class houses and property, and on New York's African American community. The draft riots drove thousands of blacks to the fringes of white society, hastening the formation of large ghettoes, including Harlem, in a once-integrated city. As Barnet Schecter dramatically shows in The Devil's Own Work , the cataclysm in New York was anything but an isolated incident; rather, it was a microcosm--within the borders of the supposedly loyal northern states--of the larger Civil War between the North and South. The riots erupted over the same polarizing issues--of slavery versus freedom for African Americans and the scope of federal authority over states and individuals--that had torn the nation apart. And the riots' aftermath foreshadowed the compromises that would bedevil Reconstruction and delay the process of integration for the next 100 years. The story of the draft riots come alive in the voices of passionate newspaper rivals Horace Greeley and Manton Marble; black leader Rev. Henry Highland Garnet and renegade Democrat Fernando Wood; Irish soldier Peter Welsh and conservative diarist Maria Daly; and many others. In chronicling this violent demonstration over the balance between centralized power and civil liberties in a time of national emergency, The Devil's Own Work (Walt Whitman's characterization of the riots) sheds new light on the Civil War era and on the history of protest and reform in America.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Walker & Company
ISBN-10
0802714390
ISBN-13
9780802714398
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43550857
Product Key Features
Book Title
Devil's Own Work : the Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
28.7 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
22
Lccn
2005-018089
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
974.7/103
Lc Classification Number
F128.44.S33 2005
Copyright Date
2005
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