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The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman chronicles the extraordinary life of a Black woman born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation in 1864. After being freed at the end of the Civil War, Miss Pittman witnesses and experiences over a century of profound social and political transformation in the United States. The narrative begins with her youth and the hardships of slavery, then follows her through emancipation, the Reconstruction era, the Great Migration, the civil rights movement, and into the 1960s. Remaining steadfast, she ultimately participates in a demonstration demanding the fulfillment of the freedom that was promised a century earlier.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Ernest J. Gaines
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