The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines. The story depicts the struggles of blacks as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a woman named Jane Pittman. She tells of the major events of her life from the time she was a young slave girl in the American South at the end of the Civil War.
The novel was dramatized in a TV movie in 1974, starring Cicely Tyson.
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The first chapter presents Miss Jane Pittman as a child and slave working for her mistress. When Yankees soldier pass by the house where she lives, she is asked what her name is. When the child says her name is Ticey, a slave name, a corporal...
Corporal Brown is the man Jane sees after the end of the war. Corporal Brown is the one who tells her about the end of the war and how she will soon be free and thus she should choose a new name for herself. Corporal Brown suggested the name Jane,...
They are both searching for someone. The old man is heading south to try and find his father who was sold in Mississippi. Jane explains that they are going to Ohio to find the Yankee soldier,
