The Colored Orphan Asylum
Its name, the Colored Orphan Asylum, sounds grim enough to have been concocted by Charles Dickens.
The orphanage, founded in 1836, is credited with being one of the first places in the country to take in black children whose parents had died, or could no longer care for them. It also took in some American Indians. It moved from place to place in Manhattan, and in 1863, its building at 44th Street and Fifth Avenue was destroyed during the Civil War draft riots. The home moved to Harlem and, in the early 1900's, to Riverdale, where its charges lived in small cottages, meant to feel more like home.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/nyregion/recalling-a-place-of-sanctuary-for-black-orphans.html
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Black Orphanage Destroyed by Angry Whites
July 13, 1863
Working class Irish in New York City, angered by the Conscription Act that allowed exemptions from military service for $300, burned a provost marshal's office and the Colored Orphan Asylum. The act triggered a three-day anti-black race riot.
http://www.blackfacts.com/fact/0fd9f698-dd40-4af5-a179-c05a11b35d84
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Destee
Its name, the Colored Orphan Asylum, sounds grim enough to have been concocted by Charles Dickens.
The orphanage, founded in 1836, is credited with being one of the first places in the country to take in black children whose parents had died, or could no longer care for them. It also took in some American Indians. It moved from place to place in Manhattan, and in 1863, its building at 44th Street and Fifth Avenue was destroyed during the Civil War draft riots. The home moved to Harlem and, in the early 1900's, to Riverdale, where its charges lived in small cottages, meant to feel more like home.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/nyregion/recalling-a-place-of-sanctuary-for-black-orphans.html
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Black Orphanage Destroyed by Angry Whites
July 13, 1863
Working class Irish in New York City, angered by the Conscription Act that allowed exemptions from military service for $300, burned a provost marshal's office and the Colored Orphan Asylum. The act triggered a three-day anti-black race riot.
http://www.blackfacts.com/fact/0fd9f698-dd40-4af5-a179-c05a11b35d84
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Destee