1885 MYRTILLA MINER. Memoir of a Pioneer Educator of Freed Black Slaves, Abolitionist, &c. Spurgeon This edition contains an additional

This edition contains an additional essay on submission to the government [1850] which seems to have the Fugitive Slave Act in mind

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

Solid with light tenderness at the ffep

Politically aligned

1885 MYRTILLA MINER. Memoir of a Pioneer Educator of Freed Black Slaves, Abolitionist, &c. Spurgeon This edition contains an additionalAn 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