TY - BOOK AU - McKissack, Patricia C., TI - A picture of freedom : : the diary of Clotee, a slave girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859 T2 - Dear America SN - 0590259881 AV - PZ 7 .M47 1997 .M47 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic KW - Slavery KW - Juvenile fiction KW - United States KW - Diaries KW - fiction KW - Underground Railroad KW - Afro-Americans KW - Literacy KW - Fiction KW - Historical fiction N1 - Fictional diary of a slave girl set in 1859 Virginia N2 - 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 ER -