{"product_id":"2940044257818","title":"Ready Reference Treatise: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman","description":"\u003cp\u003e“The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” by Ernest J. Gaines was first published in the year 1971. The story revolves around the struggles of African American.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman named Jane Pittman happens to be the witness to the struggles and she narrates the story. She begins with the description of the major events which took place in her life from the time when she was a young slave girl in America South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story is set in the time period during and after the Civil War.\u003cbr\u003eThe novel through the major characters tells the stories which they recall and the stories cover a fairly long period of time in history.\u003cbr\u003eThere are a number of fictional characters in the story, but Jane and some other characters allude to various historical events and figures emerging the time period of close to one hundred years, as Miss Jane can recall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong with the description of the American Civil War, Jane gives the reference of the Spanish-American War, and she also narrates both World Wars and the starting of the Vietnam War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe figures like Frederick Douglass, Booker, T. Washington, Jackie Robisson, Fred Shuttlesworth, Rosa Parks, and many other historical figures are mentioned by Jane and the other characters of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raja Sharma","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071880282352,"sku":"2940044257818","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940044257818_p0.jpg?v=1763661674","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940044257818","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}