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The book offers insight into the creation of African American community life in upstate New York and into the doomed black utopia of Wilberforce.
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 ...
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Twenty-two Years A Slave, And Forty Years A Freeman
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Possibly the first novel written by a black woman slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story in its own right.
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