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

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 expe...