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Annie L. Burton was born in Clayton, Alabama in 1858. Her mother was a house slave but ran away from the plantation after being whipped but returned after the Civil War when all slaves had been freed.
Burton moved to Boston where she became a domestic servant. She married in 1888 a man who worked as a valet in Braintree. In 1909 Burton published her book, Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days and a short biography of Abraham Lincoln.