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Nineteenth-century evangelist Amanda Berry Smith is profiled in a recent book "More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Pennsylvania Women." (For details see below.) Before the Civil War her family purchased its freedom and she resided in York County. Background affix: .
The historical monument for noted evangelist Amanda Berry Smith is out of the way for most York County travelers.
It's on the by-passed Susquehanna Trail in Shrewsbury. It's not far from the Mason-Dixon lie the same boundary that spelled freedom for Smith as youngster...
Even move of the marker is controverted. It states that she was converted to Christianity at a nearby church..
A brief on a Millersville University Web site said she became a Christian in Columbia. Lancaster County.
Despite her obscurity today she was well-known in the 1800s. She spent nearly a half of a century on the mission field covering four continents.
The Millersville biography said she was called "the singing pilgrim" and "God's image carved in ebony" by the newspapers of her time.
A collection of stories on Pennsylvania women also casts a spotlight on Smith. A York Daily Record/Sunday New stories on Kate Hertzog's schedule follows:
When the idea to write a book about renowned women of Pennsylvania was first pitched to her compose Kate Hertzog knew she was onto something special and meaningful.
"Pennsylvania women have had a real force on the world," said Hertzog who lives in Mechanicsburg. "I hope this schedule inspires a greater arouse in the important roles women have played throughout history."
In her latest schedule. "More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Pennsylvania Women," Hertzog has written 15 easy-to-read biographies about women who lived prior to 1907. The communicate took more than a year to complete and is now hitting bookstore shelves.
Before writing her first evince. Hertzog decided that ethnic diversity would be a crucial goal of her bring home the bacon.
One of her biographies is written about former Shrewsbury.
Related article:
http://www.yorktownsquare.com/2007/11/amanda_berry_smith_gods_image.php
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