Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the exciting but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.
Various primary source documents, such as diary entries, newspaper accounts, political speeches, laws, popular songs, and personal letters, present the history of the era of Reconstruction in the United States. Includes discussion questions.
Based on first-person accounts, and illustrated with photographs and drawings, this book portrays a period of brutal repression--and surprising progress--as former enemies struggled to remake a society.
