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Reminiscences of My Life in Camp - An African American Woman's Civil War Memoir (Paperback, Pbk. ed)
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Reminiscences of My Life in Camp - An African American Woman's Civil War Memoir (Paperback, Pbk. ed)
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Near the end of her classic wartime account, Susie King Taylor
writes, ""There are many people who do not know what some of the
colored women did during the war."" For her own part, Taylor spent
four years - without pay or formal training - nursing sick and
wounded members of a black regiment of Union soldiers. In addition,
she worked as a camp cook, laundress, and even teacher. Written
from a perspective unique in the literature of the Civil War,
""Reminiscences of My Life in Camp"" not only chronicles daily life
on the battlefront but also records interactions between blacks and
whites, men and women, and northerners and southerners during and
after the war. Taylor tells of being born into slavery and of
learning, in secret, to read and write. She describes maturing
under her wartime responsibilities and traveling with the troops in
South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. After the war, Taylor
dedicated herself to improving the lives of black southerners and
black Union Army veterans. The final chapters of Reminiscences are
filled with depictions of the racism to which these efforts often
exposed her. This volume reproduces the text of the original 1902
edition. Catherine Clinton's new introduction provides historical
context for the events that form the backdrop of Taylor's memoir,
as well as for the problems of race and gender it illuminates.
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