(ASTOR PLACE RIOT) Account of the Terrific and Fatal Riot at the New-York Astor Place Opera House. New York, 1849. Wood-engraved frontispiece view of the riot, repeated on the rear wrapper. 8vo, modern buckram with the original letterpress and pictorial wrappers bound in.
On 10 May 1849, 22 were killed and almost 100 protestors and police injured in the second bloodiest riot in New York City history (after the draft riots). The rioting, which historians have argued occurred due to class and ethnic conflicts, began when over 15,000 protestors gathered outside the Astor Place Opera House where disliked British actor William Macready was performing. Macready and American actor Edwin Forrest had been previously involved in a contentious and well-publicized feud.
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