Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Type

Book

Authors

Hall, Rebecca

ISBN 10

0241523559

ISBN 13

9780241523551

Tags

Women, Black & African Americans women, Graphic Novel

Description

Women warriors planned and led revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history. Wake tells the “riveting” (Angela Y. Davis) story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back seat. But Rebecca decides to look deeper, and her journey takes her through old court records, slave ship captain’s logs, crumbling correspondence [...]. She finds women warriors everywhere.

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