Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir

I was encouraged to purchase this book written many years ago and learned more about South Carolina.

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.

I'm still working on this one. It is a bit hard for me since I am white Southern and the authors are not. My family never owned slaves nor lived in an area that had many. We were and are poor, dirt farmers but proud that when we had extra help they were paid for their service and fed the same thing my uncles, aunts, and parents were by my grandmother every day. I feel bad for those descendants of slaves but glad that nobody in my family participated in this abomination. I hope to gain greater insight from this book.

I liked this book. It was very interesting. I live in Charleston

Amazing book

As described

Good read.

I helped teach history classes that used this book and I have to admit: it wasn't universally popular among undergrads. But you'll find that you can return to Lemon Swamp time after time and still find it as rich as ever - it's almost impossible to exhaust the insights Fields presents, simply by letting a woman tell her stories. You'll learn more every time you open the book.