Speaker 1: One of the largest amounts of casualties during the Civil
Speaker 1: War didn't happen on the battlefield. It happened in New
Speaker 1: York City at an orphanage. I didn't know. Maybe I
Speaker 1: didn't know. No, I didn't know. Maybe I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. Forty second Street and
Speaker 1: Fifth Avenue in New York City was the location. It's
Speaker 1: now Midtown, Manhattan. There was a black orphanage and during
Speaker 1: the Civil War, the North needed more soldiers, so they
Speaker 1: had a draft in New York City. See, white folks
Speaker 1: could pay to dodge the draft. Remember, black folks weren't
Speaker 1: even citizens, so they couldn't be drafted. So it were
Speaker 1: just the working class white men available for the draft.
Speaker 1: And those white men were angry. They were so angry
Speaker 1: at black folks that they went on another one of
Speaker 1: them good old white killing sprees. Were just being black
Speaker 1: was a death sentence massacres. Monday this season is dedicated
Speaker 1: to those varia atrocities. Then white folks went in the
Speaker 1: city and killed one hundred and twenty black men, women
Speaker 1: and children just unlived them. Then went to the colored
Speaker 1: orphans Asylumn broke in with bats and pickaxes burned it
Speaker 1: to the ground. Like Andre Rosen's house in the nineties,
Speaker 1: All of the children escaped, none died. Many of them
Speaker 1: fled to Black Whales Island what is now Roosevelt Island
Speaker 1: in New York. Most of the other black folks in
Speaker 1: that now Midtown Manhattan area fled to Harlem or Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: and the demographics still show those numbers today. On our
Speaker 1: commuter school in the morning, my eleven year old daughter
Speaker 1: and I after completing our affirmations, we just have conversations
Speaker 1: about everything from integrity, to civil rights to enslavement periods.
Speaker 1: And she asked me one morning, She said that when
Speaker 1: the KKK started beating up the black people, what will
Speaker 1: happen to the kids? And I looked in the rearview
Speaker 1: mirror and we locked eyes, and I told my eleven
Speaker 1: year old baby girl, the klan would beat up the
Speaker 1: kids two running, and she said, and they would kill
Speaker 1: the kids too. I said, yes, baby, those racist white
Speaker 1: clansmen would kill the black kids too, and I could
Speaker 1: see the innocence leave her eyes. One hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: black men, women, and children were killed that summer day,
Speaker 1: July thirteenth, eighteen sixty three two thousand people were injured,
Speaker 1: and I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either, I didn't
Speaker 1: know