The Cincinnati Riots of 1836 were caused by racial tensions at a time when African Americans, some of whom had escaped from slavery in the southern states of the United States, were competing with whites for jobs.The racial riots occurred in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States in April and July 1836 by a mob of whites against black residents.These were part of a pattern of violence at that time. A severe riot had occurred in 1829, led by ethnic Irish, and another riot against blacks broke out in 1841.After the Cincinnati riots of 1829, in which many African Americans lost their homes and property, a growing number of whites, such as the "Lane rebels" who withdrew from the Cincinnati Lane Theological Seminary en masse in 1834, over the issue of abolition, became sympathetic to their plight. The