According to a letter Francis wrote to Frederick Douglass which was printed in The North Star, the group's goal was to "promote , so far as possible, every branch of literature, art, and science, and encouraging every political reform, which tends to secure human rights or character.
Shortly after the group's founding they received a five dollar donation from the Independent Order of Daughters of Temperance in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania which was announced in The North Star.
In late 1848, the Francises stayed at Frederick Douglass's home in Rochester, New York as part of a larger abolitionist organizing.
[6] In 1849, abolitionist Gerrit Smith came to speak to the group and was awarded the "Silver Pitcher" in a private ceremony.
At that point the store and other businesses were put solely in her name, as well as the debt that her husband had acquired while alive.
In order to pay off these debts, Francis was forced to sell some their residential property, including their home back in New York.
[2] Francis is buried in Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.