McKissack, Patricia C.

A picture of freedom : the diary of Clotee, a slave girl / by Patricia C. McKissack. - New York : Scholastic, 1997. - 192 p. : ill., maps, ports., music ; 20 cm. - Dear America ; 5 .

donated in memory of Matthew Young

In 1859 thirteen-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.
African Americans--Fiction.
Literacy--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Historical fiction

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