Title

Amanda Smith, 1897. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Amanda Smith, 1897. African-American evangelist preacher and activist Amanda Berry Smith fundraised for The Amanda Smith Orphanage and Industrial Home for Abandoned and Destitute Colored Children near Chicago. She preached the doctrine of entire sanctification at Methodist camp meetings and travelled to India, England and West Africa. From 'The white side of a black subject, enlarged and brought down to date; a vindication of the Afro-American race; from the landing of slaves at St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565, to the present time'.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A03_205

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Rights managed

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37,0Mb (1,3Mb) / 10,0in x 14,4in / 3000 x 4306 (300dpi)

Keywords

female women woman people black library religious country religion finance color Christianity location century concept African American African-American B&W afro-american public library preaching United States of America Colour 19th century preacher black & white black and white B W white and black activism activist New York Public Library nineteenth century NYPL Evangelist heritage American America USA portrait fundraising united states fundraiser Unknown Wood Smith Amanda cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art portraits 19th-century Schomburg Center for Research Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture American Publishing House Norman Barton Wood Norman Barton Norman B. Wood Norman B. Amanda Berry Smith Amanda Berry Amanda Smith