Were You There? A Biography of Emma Wakefield-Paillet Civil War Drew is an alumna of

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Were You There? A Biography of Emma Wakefield-Paillet Civil War Drew is an alumna ofWere You There? A Biography of Emma Wakefield Paillet By Phebe Hayes and Margaret Simon Out now! About the Book Were You There? travels through the life of Emma Wakefield Paillet as she breaks away from the oppression of the post Civil War southern life to successfully become the first African American woman to receive a medical degree in the state of Louisiana. As she grows up in Reconstruction era New Iberia, Louisiana, her father's political