Smith, Amanda:

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY THE STORY OF THE LORD'S DEALINGS WITH MRS. AMANDA SMITH THE COLORED EVANGELIST.

Chicago: 1893. Original cloth, with gilt-lettered spine and gilt-decorated front cover. Port. frontis with original tissue guard. xvi, 17-506 clean pages. Illustrations. Fine.

"Amanda Berry Smith, 'the singing pilgrim' of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, once consummated one hundred twelve 'accessions' and one hundred fifty-six baptisms in forty-five days. A tireless missionary with prodigious personal magnetism, Smith labored in America [where she was born a slave in Maryland], the British Isles, India, and Africa to better the earthly existence of 'my people'." [Weinstein, Against the Tide.]
"Like Phyllis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, and poet-activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, said minister Marshall William Taylor...Smith 'demonstrated the possibilities of the Negro woman...to rise like her in His likeness and image." [Id.]
FIRST EDITION. Blockson 2238. Work 475 [later printing]. Weinstein 175. LCP 9478. Item #38600

Price: $1,500.00