Agent: Anjali Singh, Ayesha Pande Literary. Readers will be left with plenty to think about. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Hardcover Jby Rebecca Hall (Author), Hugo Martnez (Illustrator) 444 ratings Editors' pick Best History See all formats and editions Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 25.49 25 Used from 8.53 2 New from 25. Of a 1712 revolt, Hall finds in court records the first names of four women involved and sentenced to execution none are quoted in transcripts. Plus, his roomy panels and full pages leave space to breathe, and to reflect. This collaboration with illustrator Martnez focuses on two women-led revolts in New York City and uprisings during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Martínez’s resonant black-and-white art cleverly integrates historical scenes into the present-day narrative. Hall’s singular look at these women, along with her own experiences and resilience, highlight how entwined the past and present really are. Hall must imagine how these enslaved women rose against their dire straits, filling in scenes such as one where a woman may have burned her enslaver’s house down following the death of her friend, then attempted a mass escape. Blending present-day memoir and historical reconstruction, the story follows Hall as she strives to write her dissertation on women-led slave revolts, only to discover a handful of examples and obstructions from institutions seemingly invested in keeping these stories buried (such as being barred from accessing an insurance company’s slave ship records). Hall’s nuanced and affecting debut graphic narrative uncovers history that has either been assumed non-existent or rendered violently so by its almost complete erasure from official record.
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