NMLP P-035907 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman
Austin Steward · William Alling (Rochester, NY) · 1857
Steward's account is one of only two published 19th-century slave narratives centered on upstate New York — the other being Peter Wheeler's 1839 narrative — tracing his enslavement in the Genesee Valley and his later leadership of the Wilberforce settlement in Canada West
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035907 for "Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman" by Austin Steward (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035907, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).