They had multiple town meetings to address the issue. Quiet as its kept, black people are law abiding, so no, they didn't just go and destroy someone else's property. They went straight to the company and local officials, and their concerns were ignored.
We need to pay attention to Thomas Paine: When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other, and the little all is as dear as the much.