cooperation, she decided that the church was not Christian and
she therefore withdrew her membership. Her sister Sarah had gone
North in 1821 and had become a member of the Society of Friends
in Philadelphia. In Charleston, South Carolina, there was a
Friends' meeting-house where two old Quakers still met at the
appointed time and sat for an hour in solemn silence. Angelina
donned the Quaker garb, joined this meeting, and for an entire
year was the third of the silent worshipers. This quiet
testimony, however, did not wholly satisfy her energetic nature,
and when, in 1830, she heard of the imprisonment of Garrison in
Baltimore, she was convinced that effective labors against
slavery could not be carried on in the South. With great sorrow
she determined to sever her connection with home and family and
join her sister in Philadelphia. There the exile from the South
poured out her soul in an Appeal to the Christian Women of the
South. The manuscript was handed to the officers of the Anti-
slavery Society in the city and, as they read, tears filled their
eyes. The Appeal was immediately printed in large quantities for
distribution in Southern States.

Copies of the Appeal which had been sent to Charleston were
seized by a mob and publicly burned. When it became known soon
afterwards that the author of the offensive document was
intending to return to Charleston to spend the winter with her
family, there was intense excitement, and the mayor of the city
informed the mother that her daughter would not be permitted to
land in Charleston nor to communicate with any one there, and
that, if she did elude the police and come ashore, she would be
imprisoned and guarded until the departure of the next boat. On
account of the distress which she would cause to her friends,