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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly

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

by Joyce Hansen

Juvenile fictionFictionHistoryAfrican AmericansReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)DiariesUnited States in fictionDiaries in fiction

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.

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Book data: Open Library