Reviews

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, Forty Years a Free Man by Austin Steward

glamourfaust's review against another edition

3.0

First published in 1857, this book is a biography; the author was born a slave in the late 1700's and eventually becomes a freeman. I do not have a strong background of knowledge regarding slavery in the U.S., which would have come in useful to better understand what was happening when, but I still found the book interesting and insightful. I especially enjoyed the parts describing his life in Canada - he joined a black community that existed very close to where I now live.