The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club): A Novel Audiobook

For one, there are parallels in between the lead character, Hiram, and the wonderful abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Born in Maryland to a raped, enslaved lady whom he hardly remembered after she was marketed to an additional vineyard, Douglass was a prodigy, famous for his extraordinary biography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Servant, which informed of his retreat from enslavement to come to be a wonderful orator as well as an advocate for emancipation.