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Genre/Form: | Autobiography Autobiographies Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Charlotte S Riley; Charlotte S Riley |
Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Charlotte S Riley; Crystal J Lucky; Cairns Collection of American Women Writers. |
ISBN: | 9780299306748 0299306747 |
OCLC Number: | 905221256 |
Description: | xiv, 126 pages : illustrations, map, portrait ; 23 cm. |
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) |
Series Title: | Wisconsin studies in autobiography. |
Other Titles: | Mysterious life & calling |
Responsibility: | Reverend Mrs. Charlotte S. Riley ; edited with an introduction by Crystal J. Lucky. |
Abstract:
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.
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