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Many of the freed blacks living in New York City.

The new Irish immigrants were angry at being drafted into the army without any warning, especially as better-off young men were allowed to pay a substitute to do their service for them. They also resented the blacks as competitors for work, driving down the wages. So they took out their anger on the blacks in the riots of 1863.

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