Austin Steward. 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, N. Y: Allings & Cory, 1859.
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Austin Steward
Austin Steward gives a clear account of the violence of slavery. Of the
overseer’s brutality he says: “The overseer always went around
with a whip. . . made of the toughest kind of cowhide, the but-end of
which was loaded with lead… This made a dreadful instrument of torture,
and, when in the hands of a cruel overseer, it was truly fearful. With
it, the skin of an ox or a horse could be cut through. Hence, it was no
uncommon thing to see the poor slaves with their backs mangled in a most
horrible manner.”
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