Research Catalog

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 / by Austin Steward.

Author

Steward, Austin, 1794-1860.

Publication

Rochester, N.Y. : Published by Allings & Cory, Exchange Street, 1861.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893
• Allings & Cory, publisher.
• Colvin & Crowell, stereotyper.

Description

xii, [1], 14-360 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill.; 18 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Enslaved persons > New York (State) > Biography
• Enslaved persons > Virginia > Biography
• Freed persons > New York (State) > Biography
• Slavery > New York (State)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Black author
• Wilberforce Colony
• Steward, Austin, 1794-1860 > Portraits
• Slavery > Virginia

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by Wm. Alling, In the Clerk's Office, of the District Court of the U.S. for the Northern District of New York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "Colvin & Crowell, stereotypers."--stereotyper statement, verso of title page.
• Frontispiece portrait signed: Engraved by J.C. Buttre from an Ambrotype.
• Narrative of slave life in Virginia and in central New York.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in red ink on recto of first free endleaf "Saml. E. Belcher Oct. 1. 1861 [$P.TX?]." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.92-S (Steward, A. Twenty-two years a slave. 1861)

LCCN

14017056

OCLC

• 6260588
• NYPGR6260588-B

Author

Steward, Austin, 1794-1860.

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 / by Austin Steward.

Imprint

Rochester, N.Y. : Published by Allings & Cory, Exchange Street, 1861.

Edition

Third edition.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.92-S (accession no. B526384) inscribed: in red ink on recto of first free endleaf "Saml. E. Belcher Oct. 1. 1861 [$P.TX?]." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Allings & Cory, publisher.

Colvin & Crowell, stereotyper.

Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver.

Belcher, Samuel E., former owner, inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.92-S (Steward, A. Twenty-two years a slave. 1861)