Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman

Name: Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman
Author: Austin Steward

by Austin Steward

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Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West

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Etext produced by William A. Pifer-Foote and PG Distributed Proofreaders HTML file produced by David Widger

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2004-02-01

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Public domain in the USA.

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Steward, Austin, 1794-1860 Fugitive slaves -- Biography Slavery -- Virginia Wilberforce Colony E300

About the author

Austin Steward

1794–1860

Born into slavery in Virginia, he fought his way to freedom and became a businessman, abolitionist, and memoirist whose life story offers a vivid firsthand view of slavery and Black self-determination in the 19th century.

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