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Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir

by Mamie Garvin Fields, Karen Fields · 1983

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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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adult
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medium · 250 pages

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