Changing Minds Takes More Than a Piece of Paper

Throughout The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, a reoccurring idea is the fact that even though people can be freed, the ones who once saw them as slaves will always see and treat them as such. I always knew that after the Emancipation Proclamation, black people weren't treated perfectly, but I had no idea that they were still treated like enslaved people. Those people who had grown up seeing slavery as a part of life and black people as property were obviously not happy about their freedom being granted. The minds that had been shaped by slavery were not easily changed by the Emancipation Proclamation, but instead they were angered by the ones they saw as property being treated as equals. I think that this idea of people's minds not being changed is still a common idea today. Whether it be their position on political or religious issues, people do not easily change their position on issues. Even though this idea can be good or bad, it has opened my eyes to the way life was when God's people weren't treated as equals.

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