The pious young Quaker, now apprenticed to a saddler, was brought into personal contact with this traffic in human flesh.

He felt keenly the national disgrace of the iniquity.

So deep did the iron enter into his soul that never again did he find peace of mind except in efforts to relieve the oppressed.

Like hundreds and thousands of others, Lundy was led on to active opposition to the trade by an actual knowledge of the inhumanity of the business as prosecuted before his eyes and by his sympathy for human suffering.
His apprenticeship ended, Lundy was soon established in a prosperous business in an Ohio village not far from Wheeling.

Though he now lived in a free State, the call of the oppressed was ever in his ears and he could not rest.