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Cincinnati, Ohio was a border town between slave states and free states in the Union during the Civil War. There have been many incidents of race-based violence before and after the Civil War with the most notable and most recent one being the 2001 Cincinnati Riots. == Race relations == Situated across the Ohio River from the border state of Kentucky, which allowed slavery, Ohio was a major focal point for commerce and transportation with the South. Although slavery was not permitted before the Civil War, some in the city were not accepting of blacks. Many residents had personal and business ties to slaveholders across the river. Other whites competed for jobs with the free blacks who had migrated there from Virginia and other southern states to make new starts in the Northwest. Tensions broke out in riots and racial purges. Confrontations occurred between abolitionists and slaveholders over runaway slaves and free blacks kidnapped into bondage. The Cincinnati Riots of 1829 broke out in July and August 1829 as whites attacked blacks in the city. Many of the latter had come from the South to establish a community with more freedom. Some 1200 blacks left the city as a result of rioting and resettled in Canada.〔 Blacks in other areas tried to raise money to help people who wanted to relocate to Canada. The riot was a topic of discussion in 1830 among representatives of seven states at the first Negro Convention, led by Bishop Richard Allen and held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As the anti-slavery movement grew, there were more riots in 1836, when whites attacked a press run by James Birney, who had started publishing the anti-slavery weekly ''The Philanthropist''. The mob grew to 700 and also attacked black neighborhoods and people.〔("The Pro-Slavery Riot in Cincinnati" ), Abolitionism 1830-1850, ''Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture'', University of Virginia, 1998-2007, accessed 14 Jan 2009〕 Another riot occurred in 1841.〔(Carter G. Woodson, Charles Harris Wesley, ''The Negro in Our History'', Associated Publishers, 1922, p. 140 (digitized from original at University of Michigan Library, accessed 13 Jan 2009 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Race relations of Cincinnati」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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