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

The classic autobiography of Austin Steward, a former slave. Topics covered 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, 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, "Abolition 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, 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, and Celebration Of The First Of August.