Wake by Rebecca Hall6/8/2023 ![]() Part graphic novel, part memoir, it is a powerful reminder that while the past is gone, we still live in its wake. Strikingly illustrated in black and white, Wake explores both a personal and a global legacy. WAKE THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF WOMEN-LED SLAVE REVOLTS by Rebecca Hall illustrated by Hugo Martínez RELEASE DATE: JA vividly illustrated account of Black women rebels that combines elements of memoir, archival research, and informed imaginings of its subjects lives. Beneath both is Hall’s own tale: of a life lived in the shadow of slavery and its consequences. With in-depth archival research and a measured use of historical imagination, she constructs the likely pasts of women rebels who fought for freedom on slave ships bound to America, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. In Wake Rebecca Hall, a historian, a granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery, tells their story. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the passage across the Atlantic. ![]() The Guardian calls it a “must-read”, Angela Davis and Donna Haraway praise it, and we hope that this graphic novel and inquiry will find many readers: “Wake” from Rebecca Hall. ![]() Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Rebecca Hall ![]()
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