EPISODE · Jan 21, 2008

Rikers Island - description

from Mapping the African American Past (MAAP) · host Columbia University

Rikers Island On March 5, 1864, a crowd of over 10,000 New Yorkers watched in awe as 1,000 well-disciplined Union army troops left Rikers Island and marched west to the Hudson River, their dark blue uniforms and crisp white gloves and white leggings glistening in the sunlight.

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