id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 17864 Burton, Annie L. Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days .txt text/plain 17298 1085 88 the big boys got a little brandy and gave us children all a drink, P---River, and about twenty-three miles from Clayton, Ala. One day my master heard that the Yankees were coming our way, and he mistress and the slaves watched for their return day and night for August, six of us children took "Old Yank" and went away back on the rich lady came to our house one day, looking for some one to take care this time Mis' Mary had given my mother one dollar a month in return seen my sister, a little over a year before she died, she had said, fire by the time mother came home, with something for us to eat, such that there were no little white children to share our meal this time. God bless every soul who shall read this true life story of one born ./cache/17864.txt ./txt/17864.txt