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Frederick Douglasss daughter tells her own story of segregation and triumph."Rosetta, Rosetta, Sit by me!"Thats what the white girls at Miss Tracys Female Seminary yell when Rosetta, Frederick Douglasss nine-year-old daughter, shows up on the first day of school. But things dont turn out the way she expects. Not only does she have to study in a classroom all by herself, but shes also kept apart at recess.Told in Rosettas voice, and illustrated throughout, this remarkable chapter book includes a biographical endnote; a time line; reproductions of a letter from Rosetta to her father and Frederick Douglasss newspaper, the North Star; and source notes.