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An autobiography : the story of the Lord's dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the colored evangelist : containing an account of her life work of faith, and her travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa, as an independent missionary

Title
  1. An autobiography : the story of the Lord's dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the colored evangelist : containing an account of her life work of faith, and her travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa, as an independent missionary / with an introduction by Bishop Thoburn.
Published by
  1. Chicago : Meyer & Brother, publishers, 108 Washington Street, 1893.
  2. ©1893.
Author
  1. Smith, Amanda, 1837-1915

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Additional authors
  1. Meyer & Brother, publisher
Description
  1. xvi, 506 pages, [26] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits; 21 cm
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject
  1. Smith, Amanda, 1837-1915
  2. Smith, Amanda, 1837-1915 -- Portraits
  3. Evangelistic work
  4. Women missionaries -- Biography
  5. African American missionaries -- Biography
  6. Voyages and travels
Genre/Form
  1. Inscriptions (Provenance)
Call number
  1. Sc Rare B-Smith, A. (Smith, A. Amanda Smith's own story)
Note
  1. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1893, by Amanda Smith in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
Indexed in (note)
  1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
Additional formats (note)
  1. Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.
Source (note)
  1. from Arthur A. Schomburg;
Provenance (note)
  1. inscribed: in ink on page [iii] "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Author
  1. Smith, Amanda, 1837-1915, author.
Title
  1. An autobiography : the story of the Lord's dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the colored evangelist : containing an account of her life work of faith, and her travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa, as an independent missionary / with an introduction by Bishop Thoburn.
Publisher
  1. Chicago : Meyer & Brother, publishers, 108 Washington Street, 1893.
Copyright date
  1. ©1893.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Indexed in:
  1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 9478
Additional formats
  1. Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.
Provenance
  1. Copy in Sc Rare B-Smith, A. (copy 2) (accession no. B571108) inscribed: in ink on page [iii] "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Source
  1. Purchase; from Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926. Copy in Sc Rare B-Smith, A. (Smith, A. Amanda Smith's own story) (copy 2), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.
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  3. Full text available via HathiTrust (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill copy)
  4. Plain text PDF available via the African American Women Writers of the 19th Century Project
Local subject
  1. Black author.
Added author
  1. Meyer & Brother, publisher.
  2. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.
LCCN
  1. 14013153
Research call number
  1. Sc Rare B-Smith, A. (Smith, A. Amanda Smith's own story)
  2. *WIY 97-264
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