Hansen, Joyce.

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.


United States--History--1865-1898.
United States.


Fiction.
Fiction.

PZ7.H1933 / Iaj 1997