[1] Parker and the Ball sister felt that the Boston Female Antislavery Society was shifting away from its original goals and anti-slavery precepts by supporting reform agendas created by William Lloyd Garrison.
However, the women who broke from the BFAS to create with the Massachusetts Female Emancipation Society tended to be of a lower to middle class in terms of wealth.
The Massachusetts Female Emancipation Society members believed that black women deserved the rights and privileges of motherhood and womanhood that they were being denied.
This contrasted with the views of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, whose members instead believed that slavery was immoral due to its influence on the inherent rights and accountability.
[2] Many of the sources and documents connected to the Massachusetts Female Emancipation Society have been lost or are not legible and so exact dates are difficult to find on when the group formally disbanded.