Susie King Taylor

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From the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Never Caught and She Came to Slay comes a vibrant middle grade biography of Susie King Taylor, the first Black Civil War nurse, in a new series spotlighting women of color who left their mark on history.

A groundbreaking figure in every sense of the word, Susie King Taylor (18481912) was the first Black nurse during the Civil War, tending to the wounded soldiers of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Afterward, she was a key figure in establishing a postbellum educational system for formerly bonded Black people, opening several dedicated schools in Georgia. Taylor was also the first Black woman to publish her memoirs.

Even as her country was at war with itself, Taylor valiantly fought for the rights of her people and demonstrated true heroism.

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Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University. Her first book,A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City, was published by Yale University Press in 2008. Her second book,Never Caught: The Washingtons Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judgewas a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and a winner of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Award. She is also the author ofShe Came to Slay, an illustrated tribute to Harriet Tubman, andSusie King Taylorand is theco-executive producer of the HBO seriesThe Gilded Age.