Lemon Swamp and Other Places, A Carolina Memoir

By Mamie Garvin Fields with Karen Fields

Published:  The Free Press, 1983.


250 pp. Hardcover in original dust jacket.  Not Ex-Lib.

A Black woman, the descendant of an Oxford-educated slave, who became a teacher in an era when Blacks rarely went beyond grade school, recalls her rich family history and life in late nineteenth-and twentieth-century Charleston