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    Memoir of Susie King Taylor: A Civil War Nurse
    Memoir of Susie King Taylor: A Civil War Nurse
    Memoir of Susie King Taylor: A Civil War Nurse
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    Memoir of Susie King Taylor: A Civil War Nurse

    By Pamela Dell

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    Susie King Taylor, born a slave in 1848, would learn to read at secret schools and go on to teach countless others to read and write. Follow the course of the Civil War in her own words as she remembers her work as a nurse and teacher with an Army troop of African-American soldiers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateMay 1, 2019
    ISBN9781496664785

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      Memoir of Susie King Taylor - Pamela Dell

      First-Person Histories: Memoir of Susie King Taylor by Pamela Dell

      Table of Contents

      Cover

      Title Page

      A Young Black Nurse in a Military Camp

      The Memoir of Susie King Taylor

      Life After the War

      Timeline

      Glossary

      Read More

      Critical Thinking Using the Common Core

      Index

      Copyright

      Back Cover

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      A Young Black Nurse in a Military Camp

      Susie Baker was born a slave on August 6, 1848, the eldest of nine children. Her family was enslaved on Georgia’s Isle of Wight, one of the Sea Islands that lie along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. The islands’ slaves worked on plantations and had little hope of ever gaining their freedom. That changed when the Civil War started in 1861.

      The Sea Islands were home to some of the largest and wealthiest cotton plantations in the South. The black enslaved population on the islands outnumbered the whites 83 percent to 17 percent.

      The southern states had declared themselves a new nation called the Confederate States of America. They were fighting against the northern states, called the Union. The South did not want the federal government interfering in its individual states’ decisions. This especially applied to the widespread practice of slavery. The northern states had long ago outlawed slavery and did not want it to spread.

      But even before the war began, Susie had more good fortune than most. At 7 she was sent to Savannah, Georgia, to live with her grandmother. There, she learned to read and write in a secret school. "We went every day about nine

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