Research Catalog

Title

A mysterious life and calling : from slavery to ministry in South Carolina / Reverend Mrs. Charlotte S. Riley ; edited with an introduction by Crystal J. Lucky.

Author

Riley, Charlotte S., 1839-

Publication

• Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Lucky, Crystal J.
• Cairns Collection of American Women Writers WU

Description

xiv, 126 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Wisconsin studies in autobiography

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books.
• Wisconsin studies in autobiography

Subject

• Riley, Charlotte S., 1839-
• African Methodist Episcopal Church. South Carolina Conference > Clergy > Biography
• African American women > South Carolina > Biography
• African American women clergy > South Carolina > Biography
• Enslaved women > South Carolina > Biography
• Freed persons > South Carolina > Biography

Genre/Form

Autobiographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-120) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword (starting p. vii) / Joycelyn K. Moody -- Acknowledgments (starting p. xiii) -- Introduction (starting p. 3) -- The Autobiography: A Mysterious Life and Calling (starting p. 33) -- Bibliography (starting p. 115) -- Index (starting p. 121)

ISBN

• 9780299306748 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0299306747 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780299306731 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015010199

OCLC

• 905221256
• SCSB-12024220

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library