I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly

The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865 (Dear America)

Joyce Hansen First published 1997

About this book

The two-time Coretta Scott King Honor Book recipient offers a poignant narrative about a freed slave girl during the Reconstruction Era in the South.

Subjects

  • african americans
  • african americans in fiction
  • children's fiction
  • diaries
  • diaries in fiction
  • fiction
  • history
  • juvenile fiction
  • reconstruction (u.s. history, 1865-1877)
  • teachers, fiction
  • united states, history, fiction
  • united states in fiction