Painting by George Catlin (1796-1872) of the deadly 1863 riot at Five Points, a “disease-ridden, crime-infested” slum in Lower Manhattan, where mostly Irish immigrants protested newly imposed law drafting men into the Union Army during the Civil War, with 114 or more killed, including blacks who were beaten, mutilated and lynched because they were exempt from the draft.

June 6, 2021