01131cam a2200289 4500 55696294 TxAuBib 20010105120000.0 990619s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 96-25673 9780590259880 $9.95 0590259881 $9.95 TxAuBib McKissack, Patricia C. A picture of freedom : the diary of Clotee, a slave girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859 / Patricia C. McKissack. New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., 1997. 188 p ; 20 cm. Dear America series ; 5 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. 19990619. Slavery Fiction. Underground railroad Fiction. Afro-Americans Fiction. Literacy Fiction. Diaries. Fiction. Dear America series ; 5.