Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman

Austin Steward

• Publisher: Caelwick Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9791044603067
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: The author does not think that any apology is necessary for this issue of his Life and History. He believes that American Slavery is now the great question before the American People: that it is not merely a political question, coming up before the country as the grand element in the making of a Pre This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Chapitre 1
• 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.
• 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.
• DESPERATION OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE.
• A NARROW ESCAPE FROM MY ENEMIES.
• MY FAMILY RETURN TO ROCHESTER.
• THE LAND AGENT AND THE SQUATTER.
• CHARACTER AND DEATH OF I. LEWIS.
• MY RETURN TO ROCHESTER.
• CELEBRATION OF THE FIRST OF AUGUST.
• CONCLUSION.
• CORRESPONDENCE.