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.