| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.3

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Adrienne M. Israel. Amanda Berry Smith: From Washerwoman to Evangelist. (Studies in Evangelicalism, number 16.) Lanham, Md. and London: Scarecrow. 1998. Pp. xv, 181.

Amanda Berry Smith (1837–1915) was a legend in her own time. It was a legend that she assiduously cultivated through her autobiography and correspondence. Her book, An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealing with Mrs. Amanda Smith the Colored Evangelist (1893), sold widely. It was both preceded and followed by a large number of letters published in Wesleyan/Holiness, Methodist Episcopal, and African-American Methodist periodicals from the 1870s until her death. Smith remains an important icon in the American churches with which she cooperated. Within the last two decades, her autobiography has been reprinted at least three times in both the original and abridged forms. And yet, despite her enduring fame, this volume by Adrienne M. Israel is the first scholarly analysis of the life and work of a remarkable African-American woman whose career of seventy-eight years touched four continents in formative ways. . . .

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