The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier hardcover edition as follows:
McKissack, Patricia C.
A picture of freedom : the diary of Clotee, a slave girl,
Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859 / by Patricia C. McKissack.
p. cm. — (Dear America ; 5)
Summary: In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
ISBN 0-590-25988-1
[1. Slavery — Fiction. 2. Underground railroad — Fiction.
3. Afro-Americans — Fiction. 4. Literacy — Fiction. 5. Diaries — Fiction.]
I. Title. II. Series.
PZ7.M478693Fp 1997
[Fic] — dc20 96-25673
CIP
AC
This edition first printing, January 2011
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