She advertised in the "Genius of Universal Emancipation" an establishment to educate freed blacks and mulattoes in West Tennessee.

This was supported by a goodly number of persons, including George Fowler and, it was said, Lafayette.

A letter from a Presbyterian clergyman in South Carolina says that the first slave for this institution went from York District of that State.

The enterprise, however, was not well supported, and little was heard of it in later years.

Some asserted it was a money-making scheme for the proprietor, and that the Negroes taught there were in reality slaves; others went to the press to defend it as a benevolent effort.