The Emancipation Proclamation may have resolved the concept of slavery, but consequently it sprung forward many different issues on how to approach this new idea on equality. Throughout the northern states, many would speculate that the idea of freeing slavery would please the citizens, but in contrary many of them feared on how it would affect them economically and personally. Likewise in New York, many of their previous residents feared of labor competition with these new slaves who fled from the south. And after the indictment of abolitionist took place in the political world of New York, this drew much attention from blacks, and whites to New York. The New yorker’s were affected not only personally by the liberation of the slaves, but
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Thus it favored the wealthy of the war, by allowing them to pay compensation to avoid involvement in the war. Many viewed entering the war as a “Death Sentence”, and most whites could not afford the large sum of three hundred dollars. They sought their treatment uncivilized, therefore they criticize their government's decision they “compared [their] value unfavorably to that of southern slaves, "[We] are sold for $300 [the price of exemption from war service] whilst they pay $1000 for Negroes". To gain attention to their distress, they attacked different “military and governmental buildings, symbols of the unfairness of the draft.” Then they began to target the symbol of black culture and life. They attacked “a black fruit vendor”, to hurt their economic growth. And infiltrated a Orphan Asylum on Fifth Avenue between Forty-Third and Forty-Fourth Streets, “The crowd took as much of the bedding, clothing, food, and other transportable articles as they could and set fire to the building.” They wanted their problems to be resolved, so to manage their frustration with the government, ultimately they took their anger out in different ways against the black community. Their riots ranged arson, the neglection of the blacks, and also the public killings of them. And their actions were not being repremidmende in any way to prevent the safety of the black citizens. As as
Thus it favored the wealthy of the war, by allowing them to pay compensation to avoid involvement in the war. Many viewed entering the war as a “Death Sentence”, and most whites could not afford the large sum of three hundred dollars. They sought their treatment uncivilized, therefore they criticize their government's decision they “compared [their] value unfavorably to that of southern slaves, "[We] are sold for $300 [the price of exemption from war service] whilst they pay $1000 for Negroes". To gain attention to their distress, they attacked different “military and governmental buildings, symbols of the unfairness of the draft.” Then they began to target the symbol of black culture and life. They attacked “a black fruit vendor”, to hurt their economic growth. And infiltrated a Orphan Asylum on Fifth Avenue between Forty-Third and Forty-Fourth Streets, “The crowd took as much of the bedding, clothing, food, and other transportable articles as they could and set fire to the building.” They wanted their problems to be resolved, so to manage their frustration with the government, ultimately they took their anger out in different ways against the black community. Their riots ranged arson, the neglection of the blacks, and also the public killings of them. And their actions were not being repremidmende in any way to prevent the safety of the black citizens. As as