in the Underground Railroad that ran near their farm (Sherr, xx). In a time when most abolitionists thought the solution was to send the slaves back to Africa, Susan wrote privately in her diary of her dream of an egalitarian world, when all people, black, white, male, and female, would be equal (Barry, 42). On one occasion, however, she discovered that just because people claim to believe in abolition does not mean that they are ready to confront its results. A freedman attended a Quaker meeting one day, and some of the members left in protest. Susan was quite indignant, writing a letter to a friend stated:
             "The Friends raised quite a fuss. . . about a colored man sitting in the meeting house and some left the meeting on the account. The man was . . . very polite, but still the pretended meek followers of Christ could not worship their God and have this sable companion with
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