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.

我于1880年6月27日出生于阿拉巴马北部小镇塔斯坎比亚。

我的家族从我父亲这边可上溯至卡斯帕.凯勒。他原籍瑞士，安家于马里兰。我瑞士祖上出了苏黎世第一个教聋哑人的老师，（他）还写了一本有关他们教学的书。这实际上只是个巧合，尽管我们知道每个国王都会有做奴隶的祖先，每个奴隶的先人中都出过国王。