Slavery Days of My Childhood (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Formerly Enslaved Woman's First-Person Account of Plantation Life, Escape, and the Quest for FreedomBy Annie L. Burton
Length2h 1m
About this audiobook
Annie L. Burton's *Slavery Days of My Childhood* is a concise yet powerful memoir of enslavement and emancipation, shaped by a child's memories and an adult's retrospective understanding. Burton recalls plantation life, family relationships, forced labor, religious feeling, violence, and the uncertain transition to freedom, presenting individual experience within the broader history of the American slave system. Its plain, direct prose, episodic structure, and emphasis on remembered detail place it within the tradition of the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century slave narrative, while its intimate domestic perspective distinguishes it from accounts centered chiefly on public rebellion or escape. The work's literary force lies in its restraint: ordinary scenes become evidence of slavery's pervasive assault on family, dignity, and personal autonomy. Born into slavery in Alabama, Burton belonged to the generation whose childhoods were divided by the Civil War and emancipation. Her narrative reflects the importance of preserving memories that were often excluded from official histories, particularly the experiences of enslaved women and children. Writing after freedom, she transforms recollection into testimony, documenting both the institution's brutality and the endurance of those who survived it. This book is recommended to readers of African American autobiography, women's history, Southern literature, and memory studies. Its brevity makes it accessible, but its implications are substantial, offering a valuable primary source for understanding slavery through lived, familial, and gendered experience.
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Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.5 (12)
Includes Amazon
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length2 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 13, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Slavery Days of My Childhood (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
30Memorable Quotes
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