Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days
A Formerly Enslaved Woman's Childhood Memoir of Family, Faith, Survival, and EmancipationBy Annie L. Burton
Length1h 59m
About this audiobook
Annie L. Burton's Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days is a brief but affecting autobiographical narrative of enslavement, emancipation, and the difficult passage into freedom. Recalling plantation life through a child's perspective, Burton combines personal anecdote, family memory, and historical observation to illuminate the ordinary structures of bondage as well as the emotional texture of survival. Its plain, direct prose and episodic construction place it within the tradition of African American slave narratives, while its retrospective voice reflects the early-twentieth-century effort to preserve testimony about a rapidly receding past. The work's significance lies not only in its account of oppression but also in its attention to kinship, labor, religious feeling, and the meanings of freedom in everyday life. Burton wrote from the perspective of an African American woman who had experienced slavery as a child and later witnessed the social transformations that followed the Civil War. Her memoir participates in a wider culture of Black self-representation, in which formerly enslaved people challenged romanticized accounts of the antebellum South by documenting their own histories. The intimacy of her recollections gives the narrative both evidentiary value and literary force. This book is especially recommended to readers interested in African American literature, women's autobiography, slavery studies, and the cultural memory of emancipation. Accessible yet historically rich, it offers a valuable human-scale complement to more expansive slave narratives and invites careful reflection on whose memories shape the record of American history.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length1 hr 59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 7, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Life and Adventures of Nat Love (Annotated)
16The Creation
2RECOLLECTIONS OF A HAPPY LIFE
17MY FAVORITE HYMNS
3REMINISCENCES
18The Ninety and Nine
4A VISION
19My Faith looks up to Thee
5ABRAHAM LINCOLN
20Jordan's Strand
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6THE RACE QUESTION IN AMERICA
21Over the Line
7HISTORICAL COMPOSITION
22O could I speak the Matchless Worth
8MY FAVORITE POEMS
23O God, beneath Thy Guiding Hand
9Verses
24America
10Verses
25In the Cross of Christ I Glory
11Verses
26Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
12Verses
27Christ receiveth Sinful Men
13Verses
28Some Day the Silver Cord will break
14Our Mission
29Battle Hymn of the Republic
15Verses
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