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"The union of religion and political agitation...remains constant throughout the century....It is most evident in the spritual autobiographies of evalgelists like Jarena Lee, Julia Foote, and Amanda Smith. Smith's 1893 account of her career in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, where she rose from deaconess despite the significant opposition of male preachers, is all the more striking against the backdrop of her childhood experience of slavery. In the transport of her own conversion experience, the young Amanda Smith ran to a mirror to see whether her color had changed."—Eric J. Sundquist in The New York Times Book Review
An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith the Colored Evangelist
by Amanda Berry Smith, Jualynne E. DodsonView All Available Formats & Editions
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Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780195052619
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Publication date:
- 04/28/1988
- Series:
- Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers Series
- Edition description:
- New Edition
- Pages:
- 608
- Sales rank:
- 1,426,822
- Product dimensions:
- 6.81(w) x 5.00(h) x 1.86(d)
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