A picture of Freedom
the diary of Clotee, a slave girl
by Patricia McKissack
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In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
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Children's fiction, United states, history, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Diaries, Underground railroad, Slavery, African Americans, Literacy, Underground Railroad, Historical fiction, African American girls, Slavery, fiction, Underground railroad, fiction, African americans, fiction, Literacy, fiction, Diaries, fictionShowing 4 featured editions. View all 11 editions?
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A Picture of Freedom:: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859
1997, Scholastic
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0439381096 9780439381093
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A picture of Freedom: the diary of Clotee, a slave girl
1997, Scholastic
in English
0590259881 9780590259880
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A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859 (Dear America)
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Day or two later
Freedom is one of the first words I teached myself to write. Down in the Quarters people pray for freedom - they sing 'bout freedom, but to keep Mas' Henley from knowin' their true feelings, they call freedom "heaven." Everybody's mind is on freedom.
But it is a word that aine never showed me no picture. While fannin' this afternoon, my eyes fell on "freedom" in a book William was readin'. No wonder I don't see nothin'. I been spellin' it F-R-E-D-U-M.
I put the right letters in my head to make sure I remembered their place. F-R-E-E-D-O-M. I just now wrote it. Still no picture...
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