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 ====== Douglass, Beaten in a Baltimore shipyard ======
-Amidst the caulker riots in Baltimore of 1836, Frederick Douglass - who was a national leader of the abolitionist movement, was violently beaten by white ship carpenters. These white-workers presumably belonged to one of the white, working-class gangs of the 19th century - such as the Tigers, who were on strike against black-labor competition.
+**Amidst a strike by white workers in Baltimore of 1836, Frederick Douglass - who was later a national leader of the abolitionist movement, was violently beaten by white ship carpenters. These white-workers were on strike against black-labor competition.  In what manner did such violence demonstrate how institutional structures of power in politics and at the workplace impact job-related racial conflict? How prevalent is this issue today among the growing racial tensions within our political climate?** (--Nate Stringer)
-In what manner did the caulker riots demonstrate how institutional structures of power in politics and at the workplace impact job-related racial conflict? How prevalent is this issue today among the growing racial tensions within our political climate? (--Nate Stringer)
 Frederick Douglass was severely beaten by white ship carpenters in 1835. He knew that the best decision he could make would be to run away. This is exactly what he did. It says in the text " I found my only chance for life was in flight. I succeeded in getting away without an additional blow, and barely so; for to strike a white man
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 In Baltimore, around 1836, Frederick Douglass was physically harmed by white ship carpenters. He was brutally beaten while working for William Gardner, who built ships in Fell’s Point. After this fight with the white men, Douglass ran away and ended up at Walter Price’s shipyard. If Douglass stayed in Gardner’s shipyard, he could have been lynched for fighting with the men. If Douglass hadn’t fled, his movements and moments would have never happened, and things would be very different without his knowledge and leadership. – Reilly Miller
+In 1836 Frederick Douglass was beaten horribly in a Baltimore shipyard. He would later run away, secure his own freedom. In doing so he was considered an escaped slave, and lived in England for the sake of his own safety. He ended up coming back to America after Brittish abolitionists purchased his freedom, and proceeded to become an avid abotionalist in America. Had he never been beaten, he likely wouldn’t have risked running away, and who knows what impact the lack of Freeman Frederick Douglass would have cost the American slaves. - Elizabeth Davis
 ====== McGaw, Papermaking ======
 Why were men proud to have been paper makers, but not makers of other domestic products? This is the first I’ve seen men write about how proud they are of their work that isn’t related to agriculture, war, politics, or business. Was it pay? Relation to currency and bank note production? Or simply the mention of a lack of frequent supervision, allowing themselves to self-manage and feel in control? If the latter is true, why weren’t other industries initially operated in the same way to allow white men a better sense of control over various manufacturing processes? - Dillyn Scott
-I would have thought that the emergence of mechanization would worsen relationships between workers and owners, but Smith and Clancey say otherwise. While early mechanization was dangerous and sometimes difficult to upkeep, it still eased (at least a part) of the production process. This leads me to think that workers, as individuals operating machinery instead of utilizing artisan skills, would become less valuable therefore creating a strained relationship between them and the owner, but instead the hierarchy of the workplace sort of disintegrated. Manliness and manhood of both parties seemed to be reinforced. Going even further against my original thought, mechanization tied highly to worker's pride. I thought that as the worker distances themselves from the production (through operating machinery instead of working by hand) that the sense of pride connected to the product would diminish but the authors cite accounts of men bragging about their proficiency at managing certain levels of machinery more than hand-craft skills. -K.Eastridge
+**I would have thought that the emergence of mechanization would worsen relationships between workers and owners, but Smith and Clancey [McGaw] say otherwise. While early mechanization was dangerous and sometimes difficult to upkeep, it still eased (at least a part) of the production process. This leads me to think that workers, as individuals operating machinery instead of utilizing artisan skills, would become less valuable therefore creating a strained relationship between them and the owner, but instead the hierarchy of the workplace sort of disintegrated.** Manliness and manhood of both parties seemed to be reinforced. Going even further against my original thought, mechanization tied highly to worker's pride. I thought that as the worker distances themselves from the production (through operating machinery instead of working by hand) that the sense of pride connected to the product would diminish but the authors cite accounts of men bragging about their proficiency at managing certain levels of machinery more than hand-craft skills. -K.Eastridge
-Mechanization had an impact on the paper industry like McGraw tries to point out. Specialization begins to grow and people tend to focus on special pieces of the task. Places started to subdivide each task which helped grow the specialization. In addition, it impacted the health and the pace of the industry, but we also start to see a gap in gender. Men's work tended to become more mechanized, while women's work did not. Men's work required a lot more strength and long training. -Haley Denehy
+**Mechanization had an impact on the paper industry like McGraw tries to point out. Specialization begins to grow and people tend to focus on special pieces of the task. Places started to subdivide each task which helped grow the specialization. In addition, it impacted the health and the pace of the industry, but we also start to see a gap in gender.** Men's work tended to become more mechanized, while women's work did not. Men's work required a lot more strength and long training. -Haley Denehy