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A Picture of Freedom

Patricia C McKissack

£6.99

Clotee is a slave in a Virginia plantation. To her, freedom is the greatest word in the world. In the slave quarters, people pray for freedom, or, as they call it, ‘heaven’. But when will it come?

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Publish Date: 01/10/2020
ISBN: 9780702303814 Category: Children's Books Tags: Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Children's / Teenage general interest: History & the past, Children's / Teenage general interest: Lives of children in the past, Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Racism & multiculturalism, Children's / Teenage: True stories told as fiction, Slavery & abolition of slavery
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My Story: A Picture of Freedom is a tale based on the real-life memoirs of Clotee Henley, a young slave who helped over 150 slaves escape to freedom via the Underground Railroad.

It’s 1859 and Clotee is a slave in a Virginia plantation. It’s illegal for slaves to read and write, but Clotee is teaching herself in secret. ‘Freedom’ is just another word she’s learned to write. Then she finds out about the Underground Railroad, a network of people who help runaway slaves, and discovers that freedom is more than just a word…

Experience history first-hand with My Story in this all-new look!

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Weight 170 g
Dimensions 199 × 134 × 15 mm
Author

McKissack, Patricia C

Publisher

Scholastic

Imprint

Scholastic

Cover

Paperback

Pages

227

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

813.54 (edition:23)

Readership

Ages 5-12 / Code: B

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