![]() ![]() The story of both a personal and national legacy, it is a powerful reminder that while the past is gone, we still live in its wake. The Untold Stories of the Women Who Led Slave Revolts Their inspiring acts of resistance were ignored or erased for centuriesuntil now. Illustrated beautifully in black and white by Hugo Martinez, Wake will take its place alongside classics of the graphic novel genre, like Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Art Spiegelman’s Maus. But Rebecca decides to look deeper, and her journey takes her through old court records, slave ship captain’s logs, crumbling correspondence, and even the forensic evidence from the bones of enslaved women from the “negro burying ground” uncovered in Manhattan. RT WakeRevolt: Imaginably years ago, a Black woman speaker from the LGBTQ+ community, who has authored a major graphic book titled Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, would not have needed escort and protection. The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back seat. ![]() ![]() Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. ![]() Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. In this eight-page excerpt Hall’s dogged efforts to research a slave revolt in 1712 in New York City sends her on a passionate academic quest that will take her to vast and sometimes restricted. ![]()
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