Susan Baker King Taylor was born into slavery in Georgia in 1848. At the age of 7, Susan and her brother were 1 to live with their grandmother in Savannah. Even with the 2 laws against formal education of African Americans, they both attended two 3 schools taught by black women. Susan soon became a 4reader and writer.
After 5 slavery with her uncle and others, she joined hundreds of formerly enslaved refugees (难民) at Union-occupied St. Simons Island off Georgia's southern coast where she claimed her 6 . At just 14 years old, she became the first black teacher to 7 educate African Americans in Georgia.
She married Edward King, a black officer. When she wasn't working as a nurse, she 8 soldiers to read and write and ''learned to 9 a musket (火枪)very well... and could shoot straight and often hit the target/' she wrote in her memoirs (回忆录).
While working as a nurse at a hospital for African American 10 in Beaumont, South Carolina, she met and 11 Clara Barton, the pioneering nurse who would 12 the American Red Cross. After the war.
Susan and her husband moved to Savannah and opened a 13 for African American children in 1 866.
In 1902, Susan became the first and only African American woman to write a memoir about her14 in the Civil War. She wrote of the persistent racism decades after the conflict, but 15 a glorious time of the fight for freedom.
