Had they succeeded in driving the black freemen out of the ship-yard, they would have determined also upon the removal of the black slaves.

The feeling was very bitter toward all colored people in Baltimore, about this time (1836), and they--free and slave suffered all manner of insult and wrong.
Until a very little before I went there, white and black ship carpenters worked side by side, in the ship yards of Mr.Gardiner, Mr.Duncan, Mr.
Walter Price, and Mr.Robb.Nobody seemed to see any impropriety in it.
To outward seeming, all hands were well satisfied.

Some of the blacks were first rate workmen, and were given jobs requiring highest skill.
All at once, however, the white carpenters knocked off, and swore that they would no longer work on the same stage with free Negroes.

Taking advantage of the heavy contract resting upon Mr.Gardiner, to have the war vessels for Mexico ready to launch in July, and of the difficulty of getting other hands at that season of the year, they swore they would not strike another blow for him, unless he would discharge his free colored workmen.
Now, although this movement did not extend to me, _in form_, it did reach me, _in fact_.

The spirit which it awakened was one of malice and bitterness, toward colored people _generally_, and I suffered with the rest, and suffered severely.