Title: A mysterious life and calling
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.
Subjects: African Methodist Episcopal Church, Freedmen, African American women, Clergy, Biography, African American women clergy, Women slaves, African Methodist Episcopal Church. South Carolina Conference, Women, united states, biography, Women clergy, South carolina, biography, Freedmen, united states, Freed persons
Places: South Carolina
People: Charlotte S. Riley (1839-)