Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: The author does not think that any apology is necessary for this issue of his Life and History. He believes that American Slavery is now the great question before the American People: that it is not merely a political question, coming up before the country as the grand element in the making of a Pre This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.