Choices

From the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,  I learned that when slaves got their freedom they were given many choices.  They could stay and work for their former slave owners or try and go start a new life by themselves.  This would be really difficult because most of them didn't have education or didn't want to learn anything.  Jane was a good example of not wanting to go to school.  Also, they didn't have money that would help them with their travels.  This limited them with what they did and where they went.  Lastly, in some places slaves would choose to stay and work, but slave owners would return to treating them unfairly.  This was a very disappointing fact to learn about.  Overall, I learned many things about slaves freedom and actually how much of a hard time it was to get their life back on track.


 
 Photo by:playmos
*Demonstrates all the different ways someone can take in their life.