Austin Steward

This eBook edition of «Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "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...