It tended to give rise to the organization of labor groups and finally to that of trades unions, the beginnings of those controlling this country today.

Carrying the fight against the Negro still further, these laboring classes used their influence to obtain legislation against the employment of Negroes in certain pursuits.

Maryland and Georgia passed laws restricting the privileges of Negro mechanics, and Pennsylvania followed their example.[6] Even in those cases when the Negroes were not disturbed in their new homes on free soil, it was, with the exception of the Quaker and a few other communities, merely an act of toleration.[7] It must not be concluded, however, that the Negroes then migrating to the North did not receive considerable aid.

The fact to be noted here is that because they were not well received sometimes by the people of their new environment, the help which they obtained from friends afar off did not suffice to make up for the deficiency of community cooperation.

This, of course, was an unusual handicap to the Negro, as his life as a slave tended to make him a dependent rather than a pioneer.
It is evident, however, from accessible statistics that wherever the Negro was adequately encouraged he succeeded.