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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'.