A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859 /
by Patricia C. McKissack
- First Scholastic paperback printing, January 2002
- New York : Scholastic ; 1997 .
- 192 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 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.