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Twenty-Two Years a Slave - And Forty Years a Freeman

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Austin Steward (1793¿1869) was an African-American author and abolitionist. Born into slavery, he managed to escape from Virginia aged 21 and moved to Rochester, New York before settling in Canada. ¿Twenty-Two Years a Slave - And Forty Years a Freeman¿ is Steward's astonishing 1856 autobiography within which he recounts the travails of his harrowing life as a slave in America, as well as his experiences as a free man. A compelling and heart-breaking slave narrative that will appeal to those with an interest in this dark chapter of American history. Contents include: ¿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¿, etc. Read & Co. History is proud to be republishing this classic memoir now in a new edition with an introductory poem by Phillis Wheatley.
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