DR. SAMUEL W. MITCHAM, JR. (2020)
Dr. Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. is distinguished as a historian who provides original and illuminating insights into familiar aspects of the War Between the States. This, his fifth book on the war, is no exception. “It is an actual historical fact,” writes Dr. Mitcham, “that the greatest mass murder of African Americans in United States’ history took place during the New York Draft Riots of July 1863, which were the greatest riots in American history.” The Greatest Lynching in American History: New York 1863 provides a blow-by-blow account of the four-day insurrection, information in regard to minimized Northern racism, and an account of the surprising and forgotten consequences.
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