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Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward

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Stocked with details about the author's relationships with antislavery activists Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Nathaniel Paul, and Gerrit Smith, this book offers insight into the creation of African American community life in upstate New York and into the doomed black utopia of Wilberforce.

"Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman" is a slave narrative, detailing Austin Steward's early life of enslavement and escape, as well as his years of freedom and work at Wilber force Colony. Austin Steward (1793 - 1869) was an African-American abolitionist and author. He was born a slave and escaped from Virginia at about age 21, settling in Rochester, New York, and then Canada. Contents: - Slave Life on the Plantation - At the Great House - Horse-racing and Its Consequences - Journey to Our New Home in New York - Incidents at Sodus Bay - Removal From Sodus to Bath - Dueling - Horse-racing and General Training - Death Bed and Bridal Scenes - Hired Out to a New Master - Thoughts on Freedom - Capt. Helm -- Divorce -- Kidnapping - Locate in the Village of Rochester - Incidents in Rochester and Vicinity - Sad Reverses of Capt. Helm - British Emancipation of Slavery - Oration -- Termination of Slavery - Condition of Free Colored People - Persecution of the Colored People - Removal to Canada - Roughing It in the Wilds of Canada - Narrow Escape of a Smuggler - Narrative of Two Fugitives From Virginia - Pleasant Re-union of Old and Tried Friends - Private Losses and Private Difficulties - Incidents and Peculiarities of the Indians - Our Difficulties With Israel Lewis - Desperation of a Fugitive Slave - A Narrow Escape From My Enemies - Death of B. Paul, and Return of His Brother - My Family Return to Rochester - The Land Agent and the Squatter - Character and Death of I. Lewis - My Return to Rochester - Bishop Brown -- Death of My Daughter - Celebration of the First of August - Correspondence Letter From A. Steward to Wm. L. Garrison

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