Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days: Autobiography of a Former Slave Woman

"Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days" is an autobiographical account of Annie L. Burton, African-American memoirist from Alabama. Burton was born into slavery on a plantation near Clayton, and was liberated in childhood by the Union Army. Her father was a white man from Liverpool, England, who owned a nearby plantation and died in Alabama, in 1875. Moving North in 1879, she was among the earliest Black emigrants there from the South during the post-Civil War era, supporting herself in Boston and New York by working as a laundress and as a cook. In her autobiography, published in 1909, Burton relates that the end of slavery not only signaled a time for African Americans to start a new life, but also a time to redefine their lives.

Author: Annie L. Burton
Publisher: E-Artnow
Published: 12/30/2020
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.13d
ISBN: 9788027309580