Jonesborough, Tennessee, but in 1824 he went to Baltimore,
Maryland. In the meantime, Lundy had become much occupied in
traveling, lecturing, and organizing societies for the promotion
of the cause of abolition. He states that during the ten years
previous to 1830 he had traveled upwards of twenty-five thousand
miles, five thousand of which were on foot. He now became
interested in plans for colonizing negroes in other countries as
an aid to emancipation, though he himself had no confidence in
the colonization society and its scheme of deportation to Africa.
After leading a few negroes to Hayti in 1829, he visited Canada,
Texas, and Mexico with a similar plan in view.

During a trip through the Middle States and New England in 1828,
Lundy met William Lloyd Garrison, and the following year he
walked all the way from Baltimore to Bennington, Vermont, for the
express purpose of securing the assistance of the youthful
reformer as coeditor of his paper. Garrison had previously
favored colonization, but within the few weeks which elapsed
before he joined Lundy, he repudiated all forms of colonization
and advocated immediate and unconditional emancipation. He at
once told Lundy of his change of views. "Well," said Lundy, "thee
may put thy initials to thy articles, and I will put my witness
to mine, and each will bear his own burden." The two editors
were, however, in complete accord in their opposition to the
slave-trade. Lundy had suffered a dangerous assault at the hands
of a Baltimore slave-trader before he was joined by Garrison.
During the year 1830, Garrison was convicted of libel and thrown
into prison on account of his scathing denunciation of Francis
Todd of Massachusetts, the owner of a vessel engaged in the
slave-trade.