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| Rioting lasted for five days in New York City when people rebelled against an 1863 draft law that gave the rich the option not to serve. The mostly foreign-born laborers, who could not afford to pay for substitutes to fight for them in the Civil War, damaged many buildings, including the black children’s orphanage pictured here. | ||||||
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