Riot Audiobook (Free)

During a prolonged, hot July in 1863, the worst race riots america has ever noticed erupt in NEW YORK. Earlier that yr, desperate for even more Union soldiers, Leader Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft-a draft that could allow the rich to escape providing in the army by having to pay a $300 waiver, more than a year’s income for the latest immigrant Irish. And on July 11, as the initial drawing occurs in Lower Manhattan, the town of NY explodes in rage and fire. Shops are looted, buildings set on fire, and black Americans are attacked, beaten, and murdered. The authorities cannot hold on against the rioters, and finally, battle-hardened soldiers are ordered back again from your fields of Gettysburg to place down the insurrection, that they do-brutally.

Fifteen-year-old Claire, the precious daughter of the black father and Irish mother, finds herself torn between the two warring sides. Confronted with the breakdown of the city-the home-she offers liked, Claire must uncover the power and resilience to handle the new globe in which she finds herself, also to start the hard trip of remaking herself and her identification.