Austin Steward 1793-1869

Austin Steward 1793-1869 (HM11QV)

Location: Rochester, NY 14604 Monroe County
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Country: United States of America
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N 43° 9.396', W 77° 36.55'

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Austin Steward, a freed slave, settled in Rochesterville in 1817, where he opened a butcher shop. In 1818, he constructed a two-story building on this site for his expanding grocery and dry goods store. Steward was a strong advocate of temperance and refused to sell alcohol. In an 1827 newspaper article he was described as "an industrious, respectable African."

Steward served as a trustee of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. As an ardent Abolitionist, he participated in many anti slavery conventions. His autobiography, published in Rochester in 1857, Twenty-Two Years a Slave, Forty Years a Free Man , provided a rare portrait of the experience of black Americans before the Civil War.

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Date Added Monday, September 29th, 2014 at 8:03am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18T E 287867 N 4781510
Decimal Degrees43.15660000, -77.60916667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 43° 9.396', W 77° 36.55'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds43° 9' 23.76" N, 77° 36' 33.00" W
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Area Code(s)585
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 94-122 E Main St, Rochester NY 14604, US
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