Cory James Young, Ph. D.
historian of abolition & 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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