Twenty-two years a slave and forty years a freeman

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subjects: African American businesspeople,  Biography,  Blacks,  Correspondence,  Free African Americans,  Fugitive slaves,  History,  Slavery,  Wilberforce Colony,  Wilberforce Negro Colony, Middlesex County, Ont,  Esclavage,  Noirs,  Personal narratives,  Slaves' writings, American,  Slaves,  Freedmen,  Slavery, united states,  African americans, biography,  Fugitive slaves, united states,  Virginia, history,  New york (state), history,  African americans in business,  New york (state), biography

People: Austin Steward (1794-1860),  Austin Steward (b. 1794)

Places: Canada,  Middlesex (Ont.),  New York (State),  Prince William County,  Rochester,  Rochester (N.Y.),  Sodus Bay Region,  United States,  Virginia,  Wilberforce Colony,  Wilberforce Negro Colony (Ont.)

Times: 18th century