01058cam a2200289 4500 146337511 TxAuBib 20130101120000.0 960522s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 96025673 9780590259880 0590259881 DLC DLC DLC TxAuBib McKissack, Pat, 1944- A picture of Freedom : the diary of Clotee, a slave girl / by Patricia C. McKissack. New York : Scholastic, 1997. 192 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. Dear America 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. 20130101. Slavery Fiction. Underground Railroad Fiction. African Americans Fiction. Literacy Fiction. Diaries Fiction. Dear America.