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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/905221256 Title: A mysterious life and calling : from slavery to ministry in South Carolina Author: Charlotte S Riley; Crystal J Lucky; Cairns Collection of American Women Writers Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016] ©2016 ISBN/ISSN: 9780299306748 0299306747 OCLC:905221256

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A mysterious life and calling : from slavery to ministry in South Carolina

Author:	Charlotte S Riley; Crystal J Lucky; Cairns Collection of American Women Writers.
Publisher:	Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016] ©2016
Series:	Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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.
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Subjects	Riley, Charlotte S., -- 1839- African Methodist Episcopal Church. -- South Carolina Conference -- Clergy -- Biography. African Methodist Episcopal Church. -- South Carolina Conference. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Autobiographies Biography
Named Person:	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. Find more information about:
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.

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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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