Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir
Book Details
Author(s)Mamie Garvin Fields
PublisherFree Press
ISBN / ASIN0029105501
ISBN-139780029105504
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank961,091
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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
