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.