He foresaw that the question of emancipation must be carried into politics and that it must become an object of concern to the general Government as well as to the separate States.

In the early part of his career he found the most congenial association and the larger measure of effective support south of Mason and Dixon's Line, and in this section were the greater number of the abolition societies which he organized.

During the later years of his life, as it was becoming increasingly difficult in the South to maintain a public anti-slavery propaganda, he transferred his chief activities to the North.

Lundy serves as a connecting link between the earlier and the later anti-slavery movements.

Eleven years of his early life belong to the century of the Revolution.