White mobs ransacked the area, indiscriminately and mercilessly beating women and children, looting stores and burning houses.

It was estimated that half of the two thousand inhabitants of the area left the city.

Many of them emigrated to Canada, and the local paper, which had helped to inflame the mob, lamented that the respectable black citizens had left and only derelicts remained.
At the very point in American history when democracy was sinking its roots deeper into the national soil, the status of the Afro-American was being clearly defined as an inferior one.

The Jacksonian Era brought the common man into new prominence, but the same privileges were not extended to the blacks.

In the South, society was strengthening the institution of slavery against any possible recurrences of slave insurrections.