She accompanied the Fosters for a week on their tour of meetings in adjoining counties, and was urged by them to go actively into this reform.
The following May she went to the Anti-Slavery Anniversary in Syracuse.
This convention had been driven out of New York by Rynders' mob in 1850 and did not dare go back.

On the way home she stopped at Seneca Falls, the guest of Mrs.Amelia Bloomer, to hear again Wm.

Lloyd Garrison and George Thompson, the distinguished Abolitionist from England, who had stirred her nature to its depths.

Here was fulfilled her long-cherished desire of seeing Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Their meeting is best described in that lady's own words: "Walking home with the speakers, who were my guests, we met Mrs.Bloomer with Miss Anthony on the corner of the street waiting to greet us.