"You Learn Something New Everyday"

When you are a child your parents always say "You learn something new everyday". In The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman that statement became true for me. While I was reading the novel I learned that once the slaves were free it wasn't just a big celebration. When I imagined this I imagined the slaves celebrating and moving on with their lives. I did not think about how they would survive on their own and move to new places. In the novel it talks about  how they moved to new places, like Jane, and some people decided to stay. I had never considered the fact that some of the people would want to stay and work on the plantations they had lived on. I guess my parents were right about learning something new!





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