EBOOK TWENTY-TWO YEARS A SLAVE ***
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[Illustration: [Signature of] Austin Steward]
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.
1856
FROM GOVERNOR CLARK.
STATE OF NEW YORK,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Albany, May 10, 1856.
MR. A. STEWARD, Canandaigua,
Dear Sir:--I notice a paragraph in the "Ontario Times" of this date,
making the announcement that you are preparing "a sketch of events
occurring under your own observation during an eventful life," to be
entitled, "Twenty Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman;" and that you
design soon to make an effort to obtain subscribers for the book.
Being desirous of rendering you what encouragement I may in the work, you
are permitted to place my name on your list of subscribers.
Respectfully Yours,
MYRON H. CLARK.
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ROCHESTER, SEPTEMBER, 1856
MR. WM. ALLING,
Dear Sir:--The undersigned have heard with pleasure, that you are about
issuing a Book made up from incidents in the life of Austin STEWARD. We
have been the early acquaintances and associates of Mr.
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