1885 MYRTILLA MINER. Memoir of a Pioneer Educator of Freed Black Slaves, Abolitionist, &c. Ephemera Contents: School for Negro Children

Contents: School for Negro Children in Virginia [with woodcut]

secured the lucrative mail contract—now worth $190

*Fireside Conversations on Some of the Principal Doctrines of the Bible

Captain Shepherd's Quick Step

Preached August 25th

1885 MYRTILLA MINER. Memoir of a Pioneer Educator of Freed Black Slaves, Abolitionist, &c. Ephemera Contents: School for Negro ChildrenAn 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