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A review by jdalton
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865 by Joyce Hansen
5.0
Another for my read through of the Dear America books. I don’t remember if I read this as a kid or not but it seemed familiar enough.
I liked how this book focused on the time when slavery was abolished and the war was over, showing that it wasn’t just an automatic actual freedom for African Americans. We still have so much work to do even now and can’t let history (even historical fiction like this) be changed to make others more “comfortable”.
I liked how this book focused on the time when slavery was abolished and the war was over, showing that it wasn’t just an automatic actual freedom for African Americans. We still have so much work to do even now and can’t let history (even historical fiction like this) be changed to make others more “comfortable”.