Annie Burton
This date celebrates Annie L. Burton’s birth in 1858. She was a Black homemaker and publisher.
Burton's mother was a house slave from Clayton, Alabama, who ran away from the plantation after being whipped, but returned after the American Civil War and Emancipation became law. Burton moved to Boston, where she became a domestic servant. In 1888, she married a man who worked as a valet in Braintree.
Burton published her book, Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days, and a biography of Abraham Lincoln in 1909.
African Americans/Voices of Triumph
by Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Copyright 1993, TimeLife Inc.
