(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) STEWARD, AUSTIN. Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman, Embracing Correspondence of Several Years. Frontispiece and additional plates. Small 8vo, original blind-stamped red cloth; extremities rubbed with some loss of cloth; offset from the frontispiece on the title-page and some light foxing throughout. Rochester, 1857
first edition of this narrative recounting Steward's captivity and later escape to Canada. Steward's is a particularly affecting story, with accounts of beatings by violent owners and their overseers.
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