Racial Violence – Antebellum Urban Violence
The Anti-Abolition Riots (1834)
In October, 1834 riots broke out in New York City spurred by a confluence of events: the fiery oratory of...
Cincinnati Race Riots (1836)
Fewer than half of Cincinnati, Ohio’s Black population remained in the city after the 1829 white riots. Most had left. Many of...
Cincinnati Riots of 1829
Racism and economic tensions fulminated in Cincinnati, Ohio in August of 1829, resulting in white violence against African Americans over a two-week...
Christiana Riot of 1851
After the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, open skirmishes took place between Southern slave catchers and Northern abolitionists...
Pennsylvania Hall Fire (1838)
The 1830s saw an unprecedented wave of mob violence in the Northern states. The Pennsylvania Hall fire is one such...
