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

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A rare discovery, A Mysterious Life and Calling is the autobiography of Charlotte Levy Riley, who was born into slavery but after emancipation achieved a fulfilling career as a preacher in the South Carolina Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, schoolteacher, and civil servant. This is the first memoir by a black woman preaching in the South, both before and after the Civil War, to be discovered.