# Rev. Carmicle — Iola Leroy character guide

> Rev. Carmicle in Iola Leroy by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0003-i-mystery-of-market-speech-and-prayer-meeting

## Who they are

White minister who preaches to the slaves and later supports freedom.

## In the story

### [Open Questions](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/iola_leroy_se/chapters/xxvi-open-questions)

Rev. Carmicle defends the progress of African Americans and notes his own pure African ancestry, educated at Oxford.

### [XXX: Friends in Council](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/iola_leroy_se/chapters/xxx-friends-in-council)

Emphasizes love and justice as solvents for society's evils, and urges teaching against willful ignorance.

### [Wooing and Wedding](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/iola_leroy_se/chapters/xxxii-wooing-and-wedding)

Rev. Carmicle officiates the wedding of Iola and Dr. Latimer.

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