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 remember my own 2 grandmothers going on and on while talking about their past, so it's easy to imagine Jane...

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 historical context is familiar territory, but there's not really another literary heroine like Jane. From t...

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 tells her life story to an unidentified high school history teacher it's as if she is sitting in your li...

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 that I did not know when they would start talking about her life. As I learn from the very beginning...

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, as she lives through reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement. Gaine...