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A Picture of Freedom
Patricia C. McKissack

A Picture of Freedom

The Diary of Clotee, A Slave Girl - Belmont Plantation, Virginia - 1859

Scholastic (Mar 01, 1997)
9780590259880
| Hardcover
202 pages | 137 x 196 mm | USA | English
$ 9.95 | Value: $ 9.95
Dewey F McK
LC Classification PZ7.M478693 .Pi 1997
LC Control No. 96025673

Genre

  • Historical Fiction

Subject

  • American History
  • Enslavement
  • Ninteenth Century (1800s)
  • Virginia

Plot

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.