The Story of My Life 01-02

The Story of My Life -- Chapter 1 Clip 1

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I was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, a little town of northern Alabama.

The family on my father's side is descended from Caspar Keller, a native of Switzerland, who settled in Maryland. One of my Swiss ancestors was the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich and wrote a book on the subject of their education - rather a singular coincidence; though it is true that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

我於1880年6月27日出生於阿拉巴馬北部小鎮塔斯坎比亞。

我的家族從我父親這邊可上溯至卡斯帕.凱勒。他原籍瑞士，安家於馬裏蘭。我瑞士祖上出了蘇黎世第一個教聾啞人的老師，（他）還寫了一本有關他們教學的書。這實際上隻是個巧合，盡管我們知道每個國王都會有做奴隸的祖先，每個奴隸的先人中都出過國王。