num_pages: 135
description: Reverend David Smith (1784-? ) was born a slave. Freed when a child, he became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He later helped to establish a new denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Church. His autobiography, Biography of Rev. David Smith, of the A. M. E. Church, was published in 1881.
language: English
title: Biography of Rev. David Smith
titlecomplete: Biography of Rev. David Smith (Black Heritage Library Collection)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Ayer Co Pub