Annie Burton
Annie L. Burton (c. 1858 - unknown) was born as an enslaved person around near Clayton, Alabama. Her date of death is uncertain. Her life's story is captured in Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days (1909). Her life documents in her autobiography that the end of slavery not only signaled a time for African Americans to not only start a new life, but a time to redefine their lives.[1]"Burton's Memories details not only one woman's quest from slavery to physical freedom but also her journey from a proscribed role to the creation of own free identity."
Further reading
- Burton, Annie L. Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days. Boston: Ross Publishing Company, 1909. http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/burton/menu.html (accessed 10/08/2011)
- Pierce, Yolanda. Her refusal to be recast(e): Annie Burton’s narrative of resistance.” The Southern Literary Journal 36.2 (2004) Gale Biography in Context 13 Sept 2012
- Bolden, Tonya. Biographies. Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century. http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/biographies.html (accessed 11/18/2011)
References
- ↑ Pierce, Yolanda. Her refusal to be recast(e): Annie Burton’s narrative of resistance.” The Southern Literary Journal 36.2 (2004) Gale Biography in Context 13 Sept 2012
External links
- Works by Annie Burton at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Annie Burton at Internet Archive
- Works by Annie Burton at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
