My Story
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Day or two later Freedom is one of the first words I teached myself to write. Down in the Quarters people pray for freedom - they sing 'bout freedom, but to keep Mas' Henley from knowing' their true feelings, they call freedom 'heaven'. Everybody's mind is on freedom. But it is the word that aine never showed me no picture. While fannin' this afternoon, my eyes fell on 'freedom' in a book William was reading'. No wonder I don't see northing'. I been spelling' it FR-E-D-U-M. I put the right letters in my head to make sure I remembered their place. F-R-E-E-D-O-M. I just wrote it. Still no picture...
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!
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!