Portrait of Austin Steward, frontispiece to Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman; Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West (Rochester, NY: 1857). The Gilder Lehrman Collection.

President of Canada’s aptly-named Wilberforce Colony for escaped slaves, Austin Steward was himself a former slave and later a businessman in Rochester, New York.