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Picture of Freedom (reloaded Look) (ebook)

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Publisher
Scholastic
Language
English
Published
2020
  • Children's fiction
  • United states, history, fiction
  • Friendship, fiction
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Fiction
  • Diaries
  • Underground railroad
  • Slavery

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 knowin' their true feelings, they call freedom "heaven." Everybody's mind is on freedom.

But it is a word that aine never showed me no picture. While fannin' this afternoon, my eyes fell on "freedom" in a book William was readin'. No wonder I don't see nothin'. I been spellin' it F-R-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 now wrote it. Still no picture...