In this compelling memoir and argument against the evils of slavery, author Austin Steward writes: "Some have attempted to apologize for the enslaving of the Negro, by saying that they...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Twenty-Two Years A Slave, and Forty Years A Freeman (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)
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Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman
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"Facts are stubborn things,"-and this is the reason why all systems, religious, moral, or social, which are founded in injustice, and supported by fraud and robbery, suffer so much by faithful exposition.
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This is the incredible autobiography of Austin Steward, a man born into slavery and who spent his entire early life in bondage -- and then the rest of it as a free man (or as free as any African-American could truly by in 19th Century ...