Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days

Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days

Autobiography of a Former Slave WomanBy Annie L. Burton
Michael Caine
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Length1h 48m

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"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.

Audiobook details

GenreBiography and Memoir
Length1 hr 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 7, 2020
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1RECOLLECTIONS OF A HAPPY LIFE
15The Creation
2REMINISCENCES
16MY FAVORITE HYMNS
3A VISION
17The Ninety and Nine
4ABRAHAM LINCOLN
18My Faith looks up to Thee
5THE RACE QUESTION IN AMERICA
19Jordan's Strand
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6HISTORICAL COMPOSITION
20Over the Line
7MY FAVORITE POEMS
21O could I speak the Matchless Worth
8Verses
22O God, beneath Thy Guiding Hand
9Verses
23America
10Verses
24In the Cross of Christ I Glory
11Verses
25Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
12Verses
26Christ receiveth Sinful Men
13Our Mission
27Some Day the Silver Cord will break
14Verses
28Battle Hymn of the Republic

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