Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir

Title: Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir Author: Mamie Garvin Fields ISBN: 0029105501 Publisher: Free Press Published: 1985 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Good Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. F 1662275 Publisher 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.