1860 ABOLITION & DEVOTION. L. H. Sigourney Gifts Abolitionist Charles Miner with Book of Devotion. Americana 19th century Baptist Pastor from

19th century Baptist Pastor from Sherwood

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1860 ABOLITION & DEVOTION. L. H. Sigourney Gifts Abolitionist Charles Miner with Book of Devotion. Americana 19th century Baptist Pastor fromA fascinating little piece of devotional and abolitionist history. The present copy of the daily poems, derived from Scripture, composed by Lydia H. Sigourney, was gifted to her childhood Norwich, CT friend and later influential legislative abolitionist, Charles Miner [1780 1865]. Lydia Howard Sigourney's [1791 1865] advocacy for the oppressed has been well documented. By 1810, Sigourney was running a school for impoverished girls that taught Hebrew