Burton, Annie L. (fl. 19th c.)

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Burton, Annie L. (fl. 19th c.)

African-American writer. Born on a plantation near Clayton, Alabama; birth and death date unknown; dau. of a slave woman and white plantation owner from Liverpool, England; m. Samuel L. Burton, 1888.

Provided details of her life in her autobiographical Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days (1909), a glimpse into the world of the slave woman.

See also Henry Louis Gates Jr., ed., Six Women's Slave Narratives (Oxford U. Press, 1988); and Women in World History.

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