It was Frederick Douglass who when called upon to speak on Independence Day 1852, asked this question: “What to the slave is the 4th of July?” Douglass, born into slavery, not only escaped to freedom but also built a platform around abolition, challenging even the morality of Abraham Lincoln himself. This book is perhaps the most comprehensive biography of one of the most powerful figures in the abolition movement written by one of the most influential writers of that time. Charles Chesnutt takes us to places in Douglass’s life that Douglass himself—for many reasons—could not go. This book is available in The Hub with an introduction by Karen Hunter.
A former sports and news reporter with the New York Daily News for 16 years, Karen served four of those years on the editorial board of The News, where she was a member of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize- and Polk Award-winning teams. She was also the paper’s first African-American female news columnist. As the head of Karen Hunter Books (KHB), an imprint with Simon & Schuster, Karen has published No. 1 New York Times bestseller True You by pop icon Janet Jackson, New York Times bestselling Kris Jenner and All Things Kardashian by Kris Jenner
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