Hansen, Joyce

I thought my soul would rise and fly : the diary of Patsy, a freed girl Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865 / by Joyce Hansen. - 1st ed. - New York : Scholastic Inc, 1997. - 202 p. - Dear America .

Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe and comfusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.

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Afro-American--History--1863-1877--Fiction.
Reconstruction--Fiction.
United States--History--1865-1898--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.