Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir

by Mamie Garvin Fields, Karen E. Fields

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Fields, born in Charleston in 1888, recalls growing up among artisans and professionals in the segregated South.

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This was really fun to read-- it's an oral history with very little analysis but so much you could mine if you were looking for it! The stories Mamie Garvin Fields tells are amazing, she's so rich in her recollections and they're so detailed in the work she and others have done. It's a really great book. I will say that if you're looking for more analysis, Karen Fields's introduction and epilogue are pretty undertheorized and there's little to no analysis, which I think is fine for the book but may not be what you're looking for.

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Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History
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975.7History & geographyHistory of North AmericaSoutheastern United States (South Atlantic states)South Carolina
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E185.93 .S7 .F63History of the United StatesUnited StatesElements in the populationAfro-Americans
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