As the daughter of an abolitionist mother and an anti-slavery father, Fanny hated the idea of slavery. Her morality led this disgust, and she also lived in a town with a semi-diverse ethnic population. Although one might not consider this particularly tasteful or factual today, Fanny’s thought, expressed below, would have been considered more radical for the time.

“A cargo of 300 slaves, wild from Africa, has been landed in Georgia by the sloop “Wanderer”-- and the nation is quite stirred up about it. I hope the “stealers of men” will be justly punished, and the poor Africans be stored to their native land.” December 27,1858