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Catherine Clinton Editor & Author

Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) was the only African American woman to publish a memoir of her wartime experiences and the first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves in Georgia. Catherine Clinton, an independent scholar, is currently affiliated with the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University. She is the author of twenty books, including Civil War Stories (Georgia) and highly praised biographies of Harriet Tubman and Fanny Kemble.