01040cam a2200289 4500 62135912 TxAuBib 20050427120000.0 050427s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 96025673 /AC 9780590259880 0590259881 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. ; 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. 20050427. Slavery Fiction. Underground railroad. Fiction. Afro-Americans Fiction. Literacy Fiction. Diaries Fiction. Dear America.