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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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Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Diaries, Underground railroad, Slavery, African Americans, LiteracyShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 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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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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