A picture of freedom : the diary of Clotee, a slave girl /
by Patricia C. McKissack.
- New York : Scholastic, 1997.
- 192 p. : ill., maps, ports., music ; 20 cm.
- Dear America ; 5 .
In 1859 thirteen-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.