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Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People, Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York

JOHN D. McCARTHY; VINCENT COLYER (1863); Reprinted 2018

This report to a committee offers insight into the group of businessmen who raised $40,779.80 (very roughly equal to $850,000 today) to aid the African-American New Yorkers who lost homes, personal belongings and livelihoods to the riots. Of special interest are the capsule summaries of the fatal attacks that the mob committed in the appendix; although the collection of reports is not likely a comprehensive index of deaths, the succinct reports do illustrate the savagery of the mob and the little regard to age or sex the rioters gave to its choice of victims.

The text is available from Google Books.