Memoir/Autobiography: Reminiscences of My Life in Camp- with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops 1st Late S.C. Volunteers

Memoir/Autobiography: Reminiscences of My Life in Camp- with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops 1st Late S.C. Volunteers

1902

Memoir/Autobiography

This Library of Congress source features the free 1902 digitized autobiography of Susie King Taylor, a Black Civil War nurse, teacher, laundress and writer. In her 114-page book, she provides a detailed account of her experiences working with the 1st South Carolina Colored Volunteer Regiment.

Themes include: Taylor's family background, her family's participation in the Revolutionary War, her childhood in slavery in Georgia, her escape from slavery, secretly teaching enslaved people in Georgia at 14 years old, teaching freedmen in the First South Carolina Volunteer Regiment, her admiration for several officers that headed the Regiment- Col. Charles T. Throwbridge, Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, details about her role as a laundress, nurse and teacher within the Regiment, Taylor's first hand accounts of battles and skirmishes with the Regiment, threats of Rebel invasions and attacks, encounters with Clara Barton, racial prejudice faced by the Regiment during the war, racial discrimination the Regiment faced after the war, her attempts to start her own school after the Civil War, and her experiences and thoughts on post war Black Codes, racial terror and racial inequality during Reconstruction.

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