The late Dean Manion was right, as mentioned below by Lew: military conscription is slavery and for some, a death sentence. When Lincoln introduced the first federal conscription law it was widely denounced as “slavery” throughout the North. Mothers of teenaged boys were especially violent in their protests, as the following passage from Iver Bernstein’s The New York City Draft Riots (p. 36)attests. Describing part of the New York City draft riots in early July of 1863, Bernstein writes: “Women of the industrial Eleventh Ward, an observer noted, ‘vow vengeance on all enrolling officers and provost marshals and regret that … Continue reading The New York City Slave Rebellion of 1863