Stories of Annie Christmas have been included in several collections of folktales from the Southern United States.
He writes that “In the white version of the Annie Christmas saga, she was murdered in a New Orleans gambling-house, but Negro tradition permits no such commonplace end.
The Negroes have it that she killed herself for love.”[7] The stories describe how she defies traditional gender hierarchies and the rules and expectations for female behavior.
She drinks exorbitant amounts of liquor and dominates men who challenge her authority.
[13] Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman wrote an Annie Christmas song for their play Whistle Down the Wind (1996).