Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A CAROLINA MEMOIR
Mamie Garvin Fields was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1888. Though black, her family was gifted and she grew up not among house servants or sharecroppers but among artisans and professionals.In LEMON SWAMP, she looks back on this all-but-forgotten community of friends and family, and on...
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Mamie Garvin Fields was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1888. Though black, her family was gifted and she grew up not among house servants or sharecroppers but among artisans and professionals.In LEMON SWAMP, she looks back on this all-but-forgotten community of friends and family, and on the wider social landscape of the segregationist South of her youth."LEMON SWAMP is wonderful. I think anyone interested in Southern history, black history, Charleston, or the struggles of women in society will find it thoroughly engaging." --Ernest Hollings, U.S. Senator
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780029105504 (0029105501)
Publish date: March 1st 1985
Publisher: Free Press
Pages no: 250
Edition language: English
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