The Great Civil War Draft Riots

by Deborah Kent

Discusses the causes, events, and aftermath of the Civil War draft riots in 1863.

48 pages, Library Binding

First published November 1, 2005

About the author

Deborah Kent was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Little Falls. She graduated from Oberlin College and received a master's degree from Smith College School for Social Work. For four years, she was a social worker at University Settlement House on New York's Lower East Side. In 1975, Ms. Kent moved to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she wrote her first young-adult novel, Belonging. In San Miguel, Ms. Kent helped to found the Centro de Crecimiento, a school for children with disabilities. Ms. Kent is the author of numerous young-adult novels and nonfiction titles for children. She lives in Chicago with her husband, children's author R. Conrad Stein, and their daughter, Janna.

Reviews

[Kimberly · Rating 3 out of 5]

A co-worker was going through our juvenile non-fiction collection and asked me my opinion on this book. It was a pretty interesting book on the resulting riots from some New Yorkers concerning the government conscription of men into the Union Army. It was supposed to just be a protest to the draft but then buildings were being burned down, wealthy homes were being looted and African Americans were being killed. It was a very sad time in history, one in which some similarities to current events can be made.

[Camryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book a lot because of all of its action and finding out things that were really cool about the riots