1860 ABOLITION & DEVOTION. L. H. Sigourney Gifts Abolitionist Charles Miner with Book of Devotion. Slavery Two Fruitfull and Godly Treatises

Two Fruitfull and Godly Treatises

Dwight Lyman Moody

a number of professors were quick to protest his visit

during the great revival of 1858

Poetic inscription by John F

1860 ABOLITION & DEVOTION. L. H. Sigourney Gifts Abolitionist Charles Miner with Book of Devotion. Slavery Two Fruitfull and Godly TreatisesA 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