tailieunhanh - TWENTY-TWO YEARS A SLAVE, AND FORTY YEARS A FREEMAN

Tham khảo sách 'twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman', giải trí - thư giãn, du lịch phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 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. 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. Steward while a business man in Rochester in an early day and take pleasure in bearing testimony to his high personal moral and Christian character. In a world of vicissitude Mr. Steward has received no ordinary share and we hope while his book may do the world good it may prove a substantial benefit to him in his declining years. ASHLEY SAMPSON THOMAS KEMPSHALL FREDERICK STARR CHAS. J. HILL . WARD EDWIN SCRANTOM JACOB GOULD. RECOMMENDATORY. ROCHESTER JULY 1 1856. A. STEWARD ESQ. Dear Sir In reply to your letter upon the propriety of publishing your life I answer that there is not only no objection to it but it will be timely and is demanded by every consideration of humanity and justice. Every tongue which speaks for Freedom which has once been held by the awful gag of Slavery is trumpet-tongued and he who pleads against this monstrous oppression if he can say here are the scars can do much. It is a great pleasure to me to run back to my boyhood and stop at .