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This book does a fantastic job of illustrating just how poorly women’s history is taught and how slavery is taught. I had absolutely no idea that women slaves led so many revolts and yet were wiped so completely from history. I’m shocked every time history gets reframed from a woman’s perspective and also kind of ashamed about how shocked I always feel.
Dr. Hall educates us about the women-led slave revolts she uncovered during her studies as well as how difficult it was to study this subject. Definitely emotionally, but also logistically. I got so mad reading the panel about the insurance company prohibiting her from completing research about slave ships. It makes me so mad that corporations are withholding so much information because it’ll be bad for their bottomline and paint them in a bad light, never mind the fact that it’s history and so many voices are going unheard because of this gross viewpoint. On top of this, the number of voices that were never recorded because they were deemed unimportant is astounding. And the point Dr. Hall made about slave runners consistently underestimating the women on the ships, thinking them incapable of anything but being raped? All of this got my blood boiling.
Mini-rant aside, this book was eye-opening. I learned new things and I learned that I didn’t know/wasn’t taught a lot. I really liked the medium of a graphic novel to get these points across. The illustrations were great (though I wish I had seen them in color) and the combination of memoir/story did a good job of keeping me interested while also teaching me.
If I still worked at a high school library I would order a few copies of this immediately. This history should definitely be taught more freely than it is right now, and it shouldn’t be as difficult to research as Dr. Hall showed it was. Readers of all ages and backgrounds would benefit from reading this!
Dr. Hall educates us about the women-led slave revolts she uncovered during her studies as well as how difficult it was to study this subject. Definitely emotionally, but also logistically. I got so mad reading the panel about the insurance company prohibiting her from completing research about slave ships. It makes me so mad that corporations are withholding so much information because it’ll be bad for their bottomline and paint them in a bad light, never mind the fact that it’s history and so many voices are going unheard because of this gross viewpoint. On top of this, the number of voices that were never recorded because they were deemed unimportant is astounding. And the point Dr. Hall made about slave runners consistently underestimating the women on the ships, thinking them incapable of anything but being raped? All of this got my blood boiling.
Mini-rant aside, this book was eye-opening. I learned new things and I learned that I didn’t know/wasn’t taught a lot. I really liked the medium of a graphic novel to get these points across. The illustrations were great (though I wish I had seen them in color) and the combination of memoir/story did a good job of keeping me interested while also teaching me.
If I still worked at a high school library I would order a few copies of this immediately. This history should definitely be taught more freely than it is right now, and it shouldn’t be as difficult to research as Dr. Hall showed it was. Readers of all ages and backgrounds would benefit from reading this!
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Absolutely incredible work of art to inform history and resistance. Resistance stories remain timely and essential.
I read this in three settings, perhaps to allow it to best soak in, but could easily consume all at once. A classic I’m proud to possess and share with everyone I know.
I read this in three settings, perhaps to allow it to best soak in, but could easily consume all at once. A classic I’m proud to possess and share with everyone I know.
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence