[1] The association formed after a controversy over interracial membership divided its predecessor, the "Fall River Anti Slavery Sewing Society."
Three free black women had been attending meetings and applied to join the Fall River Anti Slavery Sewing Society as real members.
[1] Another way they would fund raise was to go around Fall River and ask other women to donate money to the society, so they were able to promote more anti-slavery texts.
[1] The group would read anti-slavery texts and discuss them together, as they sewed and embroidered; these were more acceptable female activities than fundraising.
[4] Another delegate from Fall River, Laura Lovell, reported about various people speaking at the convention, including a free African American man telling his story, and poetry being read.