Twenty-Two Years A Slave, And Forty Years A Freeman; Embracing A Correspondence Of Several Years, While President Of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
Published by Published by the Author, Canandaigua, NY, 1867
- Hardcover
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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 575.00
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Octavo, xii, [13]-360pp. Publisher's original brown cloth, title in gilt on spine, decorative border stamped in blind on covers. Stated "fourth edition" on title page. Complete with engraved frontispiece portrait and four illustrated plates. Occasional toning and spotting, wear along edges, solid text block. Austin Steward (1793-1869) was an African American abolitionist and author of Twenty-Two Years a Slave, first published in 1857. Steward was born a slave, but escaped around the age of 21. He settled in Rochester, NY, then later moved to Wilberforce Colony in Canada to aid newly freed slaves. His memoirs found a receptive audience in the North before the onset of the Civil War.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Twenty-Two Years A Slave, And Forty Years A Freeman; Embracing A Correspondence Of Several Years, While President Of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
- Author
- Steward, Austin
- Publisher
- Published by the Author, Canandaigua, NY
- Publication year
- 1867
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Cloth
- Illustrator
- Fourth edition of Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward.
- Edition
- Fourth Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Culture, Ethnicity & Gender
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Located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Indiana, The First Edition Rare Books, LLC offers a wide variety of rare and collectible books from around the world. Our primary collection is built around U.S. political history, Western Military History, European Political History, and signed books from influential world figures.
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