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Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman

by Austin Steward

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  1. 1From Governor Clark
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — Slave Life on the Plantation
  4. 4Chapter II — At the Great House
  5. 5Chapter III — Horse-Racing and Its Consequences
  6. 6Chapter IV — Journey to Our New Home in New York
  7. 7Chapter V — Incidents at Sodus Bay
  8. 8Chapter VI — Removal From Sodus to Bath
  9. 9Chapter VII — Dueling
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Horse-Racing and General Training
  11. 11Chapter IX — Death Bed and Bridal Scenes
  12. 12Chapter X — Hired Out to a New Master
  13. 13Chapter XI — Thoughts on Freedom
  14. 14Chapter XII — Capt. Helm — Divorce — Kidnapping
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Locate in the Village of Rochester
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Incidents in Rochester and Vicinity
  17. 17Chapter XV — Sad Reverses of Capt. Helm
  18. 18Chapter XVI — British Emancipation of Slavery
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Oration — Termination of Slavery
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Condition of Free Colored People
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Persecution of the Colored People
  22. 22Chapter XX — Removal to Canada
  23. 23Chapter XXI — Roughing It in the Wilds of Canada
  24. 24Chapter XXII — Narrow Escape of a Smuggler
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — Narrative of Two Fugitives From Virginia
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — Pleasant Re-Union of Old and Tried Friends
  27. 27Chapter XXV — Private Losses and Private Difficulties
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — Incidents and Peculiarities of the Indians
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — Our Difficulties With Israel Lewis
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — Desperation of a Fugitive Slave
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — A Narrow Escape From My Enemies
  32. 32Chapter XXX — Death of B. Paul, and Return of His Brother
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — My Family Return to Rochester
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — The Land Agent and the Squatter
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — Character and Death of I. Lewis
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV — My Return to Rochester
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — Bishop Brown — Death of My Daughter
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI — Celebration of the First of August
  39. 39Chapter XXXVII — Conclusion
  40. 40Correspondence

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