The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, (Paperback)

from ladybug74

I enjoyed this book, though parts of it seemed to run on and on a bit. I guess that was because it was written the way that this person would have talked if she was telling the story. I can remembe...

from laytonwoman3rd

Classic first person narrative of the life of a woman from emancipation (which came when she was 9 or 10 years old, and an orphan) to the early days of the modern civil rights movement. The histori...

from SeriousGrace

Miss Jane Pittman could be your great-grandmother, she is that real of a character. I'm sure listening to this on audio had something to do with that perception. When 100 year old Miss Pittman tell...

from jbmartin

This book, for short TAOMJP, was very interesting. Knowing that it was, hence the title, an autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, I knew that i would be following her life. The only thing however is ...

from lycomayflower

Miss Jane Pittman begins her story when she is about eleven years old, just as she and her fellow slaves learn that they are now free. Then she tells of her life over the following hundred years, a...