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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly

The Diary of Patsy, a freed girl

By: Joyce Hansen

Beginning

Now

THE END

  • Slavery is illegal now in most places
  • She received a notebook from the (white) children because they were saying how she didn't know how to read or write
  • Have cars now
  • Today we are supposed to go to school
  • She secretly did know how to read and write because she would listen to there lessons in the library while she dusted, but she writes every day in her diary
  • The kids left so now she cant listen to there lessons, but she still then decides to read the books in the library secretly

Setting

Where: Mars Bluff, South Carolina,

1865

Characters

Patsy: Main character, has a shorter leg which makes her limp

Mistress: The head owner of Davis Hall (Married to Master)

Master: The head owner of Davis Hall ( Married to Mistress)

Nancy: Mistresses slave (follows her around

End

  • Everyone left and only Nancy, Patsy, (the new guest that came for work) Brother Solomon, and his wife Violet were still at the plantation
  • Master died from sickness and the whole house was gloomy
  • Patsy wanted to be free too and asked Brother Solomon and Violet if she could leave with them to Charleston
  • Patsy left with them and gave herself her own name ( Phillis Frederick) after two authors

Middle

  • The Civil War was finally over and all the slaves at the Davis Hall Plantation started to leave since they were free
  • She decided to tell the other slaves how she knows how to read and write
  • She started to go to the Arbor Church and they were getting a school
  • They asked Patsy to be the teacher till the new one comes

Differences from then and now

Then:

  • During Slavery time
  • Had wagons and horse
  • African Americans were not a loud to go to school

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