Twenty-Two Years a Slave And Forty Years a Freeman

Austin Steward's recollections of life as a slave in the State of New York in the early 1800s are an important contribution to the limited autobiographical literature of Black History. Published in 1856, when Steward was the leader of the Wilberforce Colony in Canada, the book was a limited commercial success, but it drew great attention to the plight of southern slaves and northern freemen at a time when the nation was deeply divided over the "peculiar institution."This masterfully crafted eBook is a faithful presentation of the original first edition, including the original illustrations. It is fully-searchable and fully-printable. (196pp, 1.59 Mb)