A mysterious life and calling
Subtitle: from slavery to ministry in South Carolina
By: Reverend Mrs. Charlotte S. Riley ; edited with an introduction by Crystal J. Lucky
Contributors: Lucky, Crystal J., editor, writer of introduction
Series: Wisconsin studies in autobiography; Wisconsin studies in autobiography
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780299306748
Subjects: African Methodist Episcopal Church; Freedmen; African American women; Clergy; Biography; African American women clergy; Women slaves; African Methodist Episcopal Church. South Carolina Conference
Description: Preacher, teacher, and postmistress, Charlotte Levy Riley was born into slavery but became a popular evangleist after emancipation. Although several nineteenth-century accounts by black preaching women in the northern states are known, this is the first discovery of such a memoir in the South.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.