Jane Pittman

An Autobiography of Jane Pittman
The movie, An Autobiography of Jane Pittman, is the story of how incredibly hard and how unfair life was for a slave who was never truly “freed”. Jane was born into slavery, and when the North won the Civil War she was freed but not given equal rights. She completed grueling labor as a sharecropper just barely surviving. Jane lived through tragically losing her son, her husband, and her best friend’s son, Jimmy. In the end, Jane decided to take a risk and drink from the “white” fountain to prove her hatre...