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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865

Joyce Hansen

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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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OL Work ID
OL15855697W

Subjects

HistoryDiariesJuvenile fictionReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)African AmericansFictionReconstruction (1865-1876)Historical fictionAfro-Americans-History-1863-1877-FictionReconstruction-FictionReading Level-Grade 9Reading Level-Grade 8Reading Level-Grade 11Reading Level-Grade 10Reading Level-Grade 12Children's fictionReconstruction (u.s. history, 1865-1877), fictionUnited states, history, 1865-1898, fiction

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