Mobilization and finance
Resources:
Colonial City: Revolutionary Battleground
Resource Type: E-Seminar
Relevant transcripts:
A Free and Independent City
Slavery: A Business Necessity
New York Fights to Protect Its Business
Relevant interactive tools:
The Draft Riots
The Draft Riots
Urban Crisis: Disease, Crime, and Space
Resource Type: E-Seminar
Relevant transcripts:
Summer of 1863
The Civil War
Resource Type: E-Seminar
Relevant pages:
Black Soldiers: Northern Sentiments
Relevant texts:
A Kentucky slave's account of joining the Union army
Relevant interactive tools:
The Civil War and the service of black soldiers did not eliminate racism in the North, but there were also indications that in some quarters attitudes were changing.
The Civil War and the service of black soldiers did not eliminate racism in the North, but there were also indications that in some quarters attitudes were changing.
The Draft Riots
Resource Type: Primary Source
Recruiting station for the Union Army, in City Hall Park (1864).
Recruiting Poster
Resource Type: Primary Source
President Abraham Lincoln did not endorse the active recruitment of free African Americans into the Union army until 1863.
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