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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
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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.
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