Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society

Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, Bristol, and Clifton were strong supporters of Garrison's proposal, while other groups favoured a managed move away from slavery.

The graffiti was aimed at the Free Church of Scotland, which had accepted funding from American slave-owning organisations.

[6] In 1860, at the society's invitation, American abolitionist campaigner Sarah Parker Remond, who was described as "a lady of colour from America",[7] gave a lecture in Edinburgh that was "crowded to the door by a most respectable audience, number upwards of 2000", whose consciences Remond awakened to a deepened "abhorrence of the sin of Slavery".

[8] The society moved away from its support of Garrison, and Eliza and Jane Wigham were encouraged to leave in protest, but they remained as members.

The Wighams supported Mary Estlin's initiative to find common ground between the Garrisonians and the BFASS.