I thought my soul would rise and fly : the diary of Patsy, a freed girl /
I thought my soul would rise and fly, the diary of Patsy, a freed girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865
by Joyce Hansen.
- 202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
- Dear America ; 6 .
- Dear America 6. .
Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.
820L Lexile
Coretta Scott King author honor book, 1998.
0590849131
97002170 /AC
1865-1898
African Americans. African Americans. Reconstruction. Diaries. History.