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    The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman is a novel by Ernest J. Gaines about Jane Pittman, an African American woman who recalls her life from the Civil War through the beginning of the Vietnam war. Like many freed slaves, the protagonists of the novel suffered a new form of slavery under the sharecropping system and continued to be oppressed in the Jim Crow era. The novel focuses on the struggles and sacrifices of blacks to escape slavery and racism, dying in wars as well as the Civil Rights movement.

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    I had a load of bricks on my shoulders and I wanted to drop it but I couldnt It was weighing me down and weighting me down but I couldnt let go of the sack Then a White Man with long yellow hair hair shining like the sun came up to me He had on a long white robe too He came up to me and said Jane you want get rid of that load I said Indeed indeed But how come you know me Can you be the Lord He said To get rid of that load and be rid of it always you must take it cross yon river Gaines 143 The p

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