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A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl (Dear America)
A Picture of Freedom The Diary of Clotee a Slave Girl - Dear America Author:Patricia C. McKissack 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&... more »#39; 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...
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.« less