[1][2] "When the Orthodox and Hicksite Quakers split in 1828, primarily over the issue of how actively slavery ought to be opposed, the Fishes joined the Hicksites—the more zealously abolitionist sect—and moved to Rochester.
[6] Sarah herself was a member of the Rochester Female Anti-Slavery Society (RFASS), and for a period served as the group's secretary.
[7] The RFASS "for a few years" "dominated women's antislavery activism," but was eventually replaced by a more radical group.
[7] In 1842, Sarah joined the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society and, at the urging of Quaker activist Abby Kelley, served on the executive committee.
"[11] It is reported that "This was so radical a step that, amazingly, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, two organizers of the Seneca Falls convention, walked off the platform in protest when Bush took the chair!