This is a story about an African-American woman who died when she was 110 years old. My story will tell about how one woman went from a slave named Ticey to a legend by the name of Jane Pitman. A slave girl named Ticey was going about her normal everyday duties when she heard the sound of slow, tired horse hooves coming down the path of the plantation she lived on. Then she saw them. Through …
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…drink from it. As she went to drink from the fountain, the police officers started to issue out arrests. On his way home Jimmy was killed in a car accident. Because of this and all the other deaths of her loved ones, Jane agreed to drink from the fountain. Jane took one drink from the fountain and left. Jane died the summer she had turned 110 years' old. She definitely went from a slave to freedom.