A Picture of Freedom
The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859 (Dear America Series)
by Patricia McKissack
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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' 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...
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A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859 (Dear America Series)
March 1, 1997, Scholastic Inc.
Library binding
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0590259881 9780590259880
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A picture of Freedom: the diary of Clotee, a slave girl
1997, Scholastic
in English
0590259881 9780590259880
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A Picture of Freedom:: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859
1997, Scholastic
in English
0439381096 9780439381093
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A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859 (Dear America)
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