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Steward, Austin

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Austin Steward (1793-1860) was an African-American abolitionist and author. He was born a slave of William Helm in Prince William County, Virginia. In 1815, Steward escaped to Canada where he joined the Wilberforce Colony, an establishment of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). His autobiography, Twenty-Two Years a Slave was published in 1857.

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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

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