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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 / Austin Steward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steward, Austin, 1794-1860, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Steward, Austin, 1794-1860.
- Steward, Austin.
- Fugitive slaves--United States--Biography.
- Fugitive slaves.
- Free African Americans--Biography.
- Free African Americans.
- Slavery--Virginia--Prince William County--History--18th century.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--New York (State)--Sodus Bay Region--History--18th century.
- African American businesspeople--New York (State)--Rochester--Biography.
- African American businesspeople.
- Rochester (N.Y.)--Biography.
- Rochester (N.Y.).
- Wilberforce Colony.
- Middlesex (Ont.)--Biography.
- Middlesex (Ont.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (235 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- [Luton, Bedfordshire] : Andrews UK Limited, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The fascinating and harrowing autobiography of Austin Steward, a man born into slavery in Virginia who later escaped to Canada and eventually became president of Wilberforce Colony, a Quaker establishment.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 29, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-78166-982-1
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