SPECIAL EDITION PROLOGUE ISSUE Born into slavery in 1840, on the Amelia islands off the coast of Florida, David Walker Blackstone is an initiate of a host of African and world indigenous mystical traditions. Having settled in Boston after traveling the world and fighting in the civil war, Blackstone secures a job writing about crime and spiritual matters for a Boston newspaper. When a secret society of former abolitionists and post slavery freedom fighters, headed by Frederick Douglas, come look...