Series: Dear America, Mon Histoire

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A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859 (1997)

Patria C. McKissack is the great-great-great-granddaughter of Lizzie Passmore who had been a slave in Alabama. She had somehow learned to read and write, and after the Civil War, taught children near Clayton, Alabama. Although McKissack knows little about her ancestor, she created the character o...