A Picture Of Freedom: The Diary Of Clotee, A Slave Girl [SCM]

by Patricia McKissack Author

Part of the Dear America series, this book chronicles the life of Clotee, who is a young slave at Belmont Plantation in Virginia. Clotee learns how to read and write by listening to the lessons in the Big House as she waves the fan to keep the students cool. Each new word she learns to write conjures up a picture in her mind, except for the word "freedom." As her story unfolds, she eventually learns what freedom means. The Epilogue gives fascinating details about the rest of Clotee's life as well as other characters in this book that is based on a real story.