Project Gutenberg 2004-02-01 Public domain in the USA. 104 Steward, Austin 1794 1860 Steward, A. (Austin) Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West Reading ease score: 61.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Etext produced by William A. Pifer-Foote and PG Distributed Proofreaders HTML file produced by David Widger "Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman" by Austin Steward is a historical account written in the mid-19th century. The book recounts the author's experiences as a slave on a Virginia plantation and his subsequent life as a free man. Steward's narrative provides a poignant insight into the brutal realities of slavery, the cruelty inflicted on enslaved people, and his journey toward freedom and activism against the institution of slavery. At the start of the book, Steward introduces himself as a slave born in Virginia, sharing vivid and harrowing details of slave life on the plantation owned by Captain William Helm. He describes the harsh living conditions, insufficient provisions, and the brutal punishments meted out by the overseer. As a child slave, he endures extreme cruelty but also longs for knowledge and freedom. He is later moved to the "great house" to serve his master's family, where he witnesses both the lifestyles of his masters and the contrasting misery of his fellow slaves. This opening portion sets the stage for Steward's compelling narrative that melds personal struggle with a broader commentary on the evils of slavery. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Steward, Austin, 1794-1860 Fugitive slaves -- Biography Slavery -- Virginia Wilberforce Colony E300 Text Slavery African American Writers Browsing: Biographies Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American 557688 557689 2024-10-05T08:18:54.421830 2023-10-05T08:21:56.632903 text/html text/html 563288 2021-01-26T16:59:04 text/html; charset=utf-8 197119 2021-01-26T16:59:05 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 294201 2024-10-05T08:19:04.957779 application/epub+zip 302110 2024-10-05T08:18:58.588811 application/epub+zip 270841 2024-10-05T08:18:57.064793 application/epub+zip 582665 2024-10-05T08:19:09.993717 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 542160 2024-10-05T08:19:03.720782 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 371788 2022-09-05T11:51:09.955329 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 490125 490016 2024-10-05T08:18:53.522813 2023-10-05T08:21:55.949913 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 491562 2020-12-23T09:43:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 189065 2020-12-23T09:43:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20990 2024-10-05T08:19:10.506735 application/rdf+xml 19251 2024-10-05T08:18:57.651803 image/jpeg 4171 2024-10-05T08:18:57.358789 image/jpeg 285035 2024-10-05T08:18:54.469875 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia