Cory James Young, Ph. D.
historian of abolition and slavery in the american north
assistant professor of history at the university of iowa
“Everywhere that Slavery exists, it is nothing but slavery. I found it just as hard to be beaten over the head with a piece of iron in New York as it was in Virginia.”
Austin Steward, Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman
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Rochester artist, Shawn Dunwoody, in the middle of painting Austin Steward on the column of a 490 overpass on West Main Street. Photo by Brian Sharp.
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