Lemon Swamp and Other Places
Author: Mamie Garvin Fields
ISBN: 9780029105504
Publisher: Free Press
Year first published: 01 Mar 1985
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
ISBN: 9780029105504
Publisher: Free Press
Year first published: 01 Mar 1985
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
