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Preacher, teacher, and postmistress, Charlotte Levy Riley used to be born into slavery but became a well-liked evangelist after emancipation. Even though several nineteenth-century accounts by black preaching women in the northern states are known, that is the first discovery of the sort of memoir in the South.
Born in 1839 in Charleston, South Carolina, Riley used to be taught to read, write, and sew in spite of laws forbidding black literacy. Raised a Presbyterian, she writes of her conversion at age fourteen to the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, embracing its ecstatic worship and led by her own spiritual visions. Her memoir is revelatory on many counts, including life in urban Charleston before and after emancipation, her work as a preacher at multiracial revivals, the upward thrust of African American civil servants in the Reconstruction era, and her education and development as a licensed female minister in a patriarchal church.
Crystal J. Lucky, who found out Riley’s forgotten book in the library archives at Wilberforce University in Ohio, provides an introduction and notes on events, society, and spiritual practice in the antebellum era and all the way through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and places A Mysterious Life and Calling in the context of other spiritual autobiographies and slave narratives.
Born in 1839 in Charleston, South Carolina, Riley used to be taught to read, write, and sew in spite of laws forbidding black literacy. Raised a Presbyterian, she writes of her conversion at age fourteen to the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, embracing its ecstatic worship and led by her own spiritual visions. Her memoir is revelatory on many counts, including life in urban Charleston before and after emancipation, her work as a preacher at multiracial revivals, the upward thrust of African American civil servants in the Reconstruction era, and her education and development as a licensed female minister in a patriarchal church.
Crystal J. Lucky, who found out Riley’s forgotten book in the library archives at Wilberforce University in Ohio, provides an introduction and notes on events, society, and spiritual practice in the antebellum era and all the way through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and places A Mysterious Life and Calling in the context of other spiritual autobiographies and slave narratives.
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