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The Riots of New York -- The Rioters Burning and Sacking the Colored Orphan Asylum
Harper's Weekly, 1863
Draft rioters attacked the Colored Orphan Asylum at Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street, a symbol of the link between Quaker abolitionists (who funded the orphanage) and the city's African-American population. The children escaped, but the orphanage burned to the ground. |