1885 MYRTILLA MINER. Memoir of a Pioneer Educator of Freed Black Slaves, Abolitionist, &c. Spurgeon Solid with light tenderness at

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but his mental distress continued and he "wrestled with God" day and night for months on end

The Reunion of the Old and New-School Presbyterian Churches

He was invited to preach throughout eastern Connecticut and in Massachusetts

The Last Day

1885 MYRTILLA MINER. Memoir of a Pioneer Educator of Freed Black Slaves, Abolitionist, &c. Spurgeon Solid with light tenderness atAn excellent memoir of Myrtilla Miner, an influential abolitionist and teacher of free African American women. Like many, she viewed knowledge and education as essential to ending slavery. Born in Brookfield, New York, 1815, she became a teacher with early abolitionist sympathies. In 1847, she travelled to Mississippi and taught at the Newton Female Institute in Whitesville. While teaching there, Miner was appalled by the inhumanity of slavery and