A Mysterious Life and Calling: From Slavery to Ministry in South Carolina

by Charlotte S. Riley and Rev. Charlotte S. Riley

Book Overview

Preacher, teacher, and postmistress, Charlotte Levy Riley was born into slavery but became a popular evangelist 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.
Born in 1839 in Charleston, South Carolina, Riley was taught to read, write, and sew despite laws forbidding black literacy. Raised a Presbyterian, she...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299306747
• ISBN13: 9780299306748
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"