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A Mysterious Life and Calling: From Slavery to Ministry in South Carolina (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
Charlotte S. Riley
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Description for A Mysterious Life and Calling: From Slavery to Ministry in South Carolina (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
Paperback. Editor(s): Lucky, Crystal J. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography. Num Pages: 140 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; BGHA; HBTS; HRCC95. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
A rare discovery, A Mysterious Life and Calling is the autobiography of Charlotte Levy Riley, who was born into slavery but after emancipation achieved a fulfilling career as a preacher in the South Carolina Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, schoolteacher, and civil servant. Although several nineteenth-century accounts by black preaching women in the northern states are known, this is the first memoir by a black woman preaching in the South, both before and after the Civil War, to be discovered.
Born in 1839, Charlotte Riley recounts her unusual experiences growing up as a young slave girl in ... Read more
A rare discovery, A Mysterious Life and Calling is the autobiography of Charlotte Levy Riley, who was born into slavery but after emancipation achieved a fulfilling career as a preacher in the South Carolina Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, schoolteacher, and civil servant. Although several nineteenth-century accounts by black preaching women in the northern states are known, this is the first memoir by a black woman preaching in the South, both before and after the Civil War, to be discovered.
Born in 1839, Charlotte Riley recounts her unusual experiences growing up as a young slave girl in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299306748
SKU
V9780299306748
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About Charlotte S. Riley
Crystal J. Lucky is an associate professor of English and the director of the Africana Studies Program at Villanova University. She is also an ordained elder and official in the Church of the Living God International.
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