McKissack, Pat, 1944-

A picture of Freedom : the diary of Clotee, a slave girl / by Patricia C. McKissack. - New York : Scholastic, 1997. - 192 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. - Dear America .

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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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Slavery--Fiction.
Underground railroad--Fiction.
Afro-Americans--Fiction.
Literacy--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction
Underground railroad--Fiction
African Americans--Fiction
Literacy--Fiction
Diaries--Fiction

PZ7.M478693 / Pi 1997

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