(MILITARY CIVIL WAR) Report of the Committee of Merchants f

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(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York. 48 pages. 8vo, early limp calf, minor wear, front wrap sunned, with original printed wrappers bound in; light vertical fold throughout; signed by committee chairman John D. McKenzie. New York, 1863

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First edition of one of the best contemporary sources on New York's horrifying Draft Riots of July 1863, in which about a hundred Black New Yorkers were killed and about two thousand injured, with enormous destruction of property. The secretary's report by Vincent Colyer, pages 7-29, includes dozens of case histories and eyewitnesses. Page 30 describes a visit to the Weeksville neighborhood of Brooklyn, where many refugees had fled. The report concludes with lists of donors of cash and clothing to aid the victims. Afro-Americana 7082; Nevins, Civil War, page I:212; Sabin 54633; Work, page 561.