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4.25. One thing I often struggle with in graphic non-fiction is that creators don’t make use of the medium. I wonder why something couldn’t be an article. Not so here. All the praise to Hugo Martinez for some creative and mesmerizing line work (and line tricks). As for Hall, she had lines that stopped me in my tracks. For the most part, she succeeds in blending narrative with exposition to make her points. I do wish we got a bit more narrative stories, but I think the one at the end was enough to satisfy that desire for humanizing things. I especially enjoyed the Q&Q at the end, particularly that on, “the measured use of historical imagination”. Worth a read for sure.
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Follow Rebecca Hall in this graphic novel as she searches for the hidden history of women-led slave revolts while being hindered at every attempt by the same companies that insured enslaved humans and the patriarchy.
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Trafficking
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Colonisation
One of my 2022 reading resolutions is to read more graphic novels. It is a genre that I undervalue. This one blew me away. It is part historical report and part memoir.
Many historians fail to believe that enslaved women were at the forefront of many revolts. However, as the author explains, there are hundreds of records stating that women were the leaders and planners of these battles.
She does a great job with tying in her personal story, of her grandmother who was enslaved, and how researching the most violent portion of the United States’ history is hardest on those whose souls hold the collective trauma of it.
The art is so beautiful, too.
Many historians fail to believe that enslaved women were at the forefront of many revolts. However, as the author explains, there are hundreds of records stating that women were the leaders and planners of these battles.
She does a great job with tying in her personal story, of her grandmother who was enslaved, and how researching the most violent portion of the United States’ history is hardest on those whose souls hold the collective trauma of it.
The art is so beautiful, too.
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So grateful for historians and for Dr. Hall’s truth telling here - an important lesson on history that should be required reading and is informing how I think about action for the future.
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