1860 ABOLITION & DEVOTION. L. H. Sigourney Gifts Abolitionist Charles Miner with Book of Devotion.

A 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 and Latin and, controversially, educated young black girls as well. From then until her death, she was always a friend to women, the poor, and the slave and free men through her writings and public work.  By 1860, Lydia and Charles were 69 and 80 years old respectively. Their advanced age makes the inscription all the more touching. Both would die five years later just after the end of the Civil War.  The inscription reads: "If Hon.ble Mr. Charles Miner will accept this book, and condescend to read one of its simple poems daily according to