BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRICAN AMERICAN " ANNIE BURTON " WAS BORN AS AN ENSLAVED PERSON PERSON AROUND NEAR CLAYTON, ALABAMA : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK GENIUS "

              BLACK  SOCIAL  HISTORY                                                                                                                                                                                                      

                            Annie Burton

BLACK                SOCIAL             HISTORY

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."