A Mysterious Life and Calling: From Slavery to Ministry in South Carolina - Riley, Charlotte S.
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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. This is the first memoir by a black woman preaching in the South, both before and after the Civil War, to be discovered.

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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. This is the first memoir by a black woman preaching in the South, both before and after the Civil War, to be discovered.
Autorenporträt
Crystal J. Lucky is associate professor of English and 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.