AND FORTY YEARS A FREEMAN; EMBRACING A CORRESPONDENCE OF
BY AUSTIN STEWARD 1856
PREFACE.
CHAPTER I. SLAVE LIFE ON THE PLANTATION.
CHAPTER II. AT THE GREAT HOUSE.
CHAPTER III. HORSE-RACING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
CHAPTER IV. JOURNEY TO OUR NEW HOME IN NEW YORK.
CHAPTER V. INCIDENTS AT SODUS BAY.
CHAPTER VI. REMOVAL FROM SODUS TO BATH.
CHAPTER VII. DUELING.
CHAPTER VIII. HORSE-RACING AND GENERAL TRAINING.
CHAPTER IX. DEATH BED AND BRIDAL SCENES.
CHAPTER X. HIRED OUT TO A NEW MASTER.
CHAPTER XI. THOUGHTS ON FREEDOM.
CHAPTER XII. CAPT. HELM DIVORCE KIDNAPPING.
CHAPTER XIII. LOCATE IN THE VILLAGE OF ROCHESTER.
CHAPTER XIV. INCIDENTS IN ROCHESTER AND VICINITY.
CHAPTER XV. SAD REVERSES OF CAPT. HELM.
CHAPTER XVI. BRITISH EMANCIPATION OF SLAVERY.
CHAPTER XVII. ORATION TERMINATION OF SLAVERY.
CHAPTER XVIII. CONDITION OF FREE COLORED PEOPLE.
CHAPTER XIX. PERSECUTION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE.
CHAPTER XX. REMOVAL TO CANADA.
CHAPTER XXI. ROUGHING IT IN THE WILDS OF CANADA.
CHAPTER XXII. NARROW ESCAPE OF A SMUGGLER.
CHAPTER XXIII. NARRATIVE OF TWO FUGITIVES FROM VIRGINIA.
CHAPTER XXIV. PLEASANT RE-UNION OF OLD AND TRIED FRIENDS.
CHAPTER XXV. PRIVATE LOSSES AND PRIVATE DIFFICULTIES.
CHAPTER XXVI. INCIDENTS AND PECULIARITIES OF THE INDIANS.
CHAPTER XXVII. OUR DIFFICULTIES WITH ISRAEL LEWIS.
CHAPTER XXVIII. DESPERATION OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE.
CHAPTER XXIX. A NARROW ESCAPE FROM MY ENEMIES.
CHAPTER XXX. DEATH OF B. PAUL, AND RETURN OF HIS BROTHER.
CHAPTER XXXI. MY FAMILY RETURN TO ROCHESTER.
CHAPTER XXXII. THE LAND AGENT AND THE SQUATTER.
CHAPTER XXXIII. CHARACTER AND DEATH OF I. LEWIS.
CHAPTER XXXIV. MY RETURN TO ROCHESTER.
CHAPTER XXXV. BISHOP BROWN DEATH OF MY DAUGHTER.
CHAPTER XXXVI. CELEBRATION OF THE FIRST OF AUGUST.
CHAPTER XXXVII. CONCLUSION.
CORRESPONDENCE. LETTER FROM A. STEWARD TO WM. L. GARRISON. MR. GARRISON,
