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auunuiAustin Steward played an integral role in the effort to free slaves.By Laurel Wemettmessenger®messengerpostmediaHe was both a slave and a freeman, and he is buried. in the West Avenue Cemetery in Canandaigua.Were not talking about the preeminent black abolitionist of the 1800s, Frederick Douglas, who spent many of his years in Rochester, but Austin Steward.Its not a name often mentioned when it comes to historical figures in Canandaigua, but Steward played an important role in both helping escaped slaves find freedom and in the abolitionist movement, which was recently chronicled inthe PBS series “The Abolitionists.”“Steward is a very significant person in the story of early Canandaigua, albeit largely unknown,” said Ontario County Historian Preston Pierce.In a talk in Mace-don this Sunday, folks can learn a bit more about the man in a dramatic presentation by David Anderson, anAfrican-American educator and storytellerfrom Rochester.Steward (1793-1869) was born to a family enslaved by a Virginia planter who later moved to upstate New York.SEE STEWARD, A5A pho Years ty HisifWhSp;SojFreWh2pWhRocPutADappstuabcMCPut59-
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