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.
These events brought to a crisis the publication of the Genius of Universal Emancipation.