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4.34 AVERAGE
This book is good, but really misleading. It's less about hidden history itself and more about a woman's quest to research it to complete her doctorate. I really liked the use of illustration and contrast to talk about the ways that racism is hidden throughout our global history, but it leaves much to be desired in terms of historical information.
Well, like the title says the history of women-led slave revolts. It's Rebecca Hall's journey to find out more information for her dissertation. Her feelings of being buried as a black woman and their journey and how all are overlooked. How her research would wring her out and her struggle to find and untangle the information.
Learned that it was slave ships which had a larger female population would revolt (the women were kept on deck unchained and many were warriors in their own tribes and that Lloyd's of London made tons of money insuring slave ships)
Loved it as a graphic novel and that the author was a character.
Learned that it was slave ships which had a larger female population would revolt (the women were kept on deck unchained and many were warriors in their own tribes and that Lloyd's of London made tons of money insuring slave ships)
Loved it as a graphic novel and that the author was a character.
This is an incredibly important and gripping book, and it was surreal to read as Republicans are pushing ball after bill banning the teaching of this country's racist history. I really appreciated the foregrounding of Dr. Hall's emotional connection to her work. She is, after all, a Black historian researching her ancestors' pasts and pain - the personal here is very, very political. My one gripe with the book is that the style of the art is a little hard to follow, and the periods look a lot like commas. But I often have visual trouble with graphic media, so don't let that stop you from picking this up (just a note to artists and letterers - some readers have visual processing problems).
Powerful book of both a woman’s story of researching the female slave revolts and them actually happening.
dark
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
So much history erased and yet to be uncovered. This graphic novel not only covers history, but it also points out the holes, gives a bunch of interesting facts, talks about the emotional stresses of researching slave revolts, and re-imagines the people and motivations that filled those moments in time.
This is my favorite book so far this year. It’s not an easy read. There’s slavery, racism, sexism. While the violence isn’t depicted too graphically, it is there as you cannot tell this story without it. It should be noted there are mentions of rape, again because this story cannot be told without it.
Rebecca Hall has covered a piece of our history that most of us weren’t taught. Slavery, was a best, briefly mentioned when I was in school. This book reminds us that was intentional. The few puzzle pieces found, didn’t allow the entire story to be told. How do you tell the stories of humans who were stripped of their identities when they were forced into slaves? Names are often nowhere to be found. And the few names that do exist in the records was still not enough to truly identify them. They were humans who were effectively erased from the history books. I am glad that someone is still trying to honor the victims of these crimes against humanity.
Anyone who still doesn’t understand just how harmful this time period was and how it still deeply affects individuals and society as a whole today, should probably read this.
The subject matter is a bit too much for young children, but this would be a great way to help teach teens about slavery and women’s role in fighting back against it.
Also the artwork by Hugo Martínez is just stunning.
Rebecca Hall has covered a piece of our history that most of us weren’t taught. Slavery, was a best, briefly mentioned when I was in school. This book reminds us that was intentional. The few puzzle pieces found, didn’t allow the entire story to be told. How do you tell the stories of humans who were stripped of their identities when they were forced into slaves? Names are often nowhere to be found. And the few names that do exist in the records was still not enough to truly identify them. They were humans who were effectively erased from the history books. I am glad that someone is still trying to honor the victims of these crimes against humanity.
Anyone who still doesn’t understand just how harmful this time period was and how it still deeply affects individuals and society as a whole today, should probably read this.
The subject matter is a bit too much for young children, but this would be a great way to help teach teens about slavery and women’s role in fighting back against it.
Also the artwork by Hugo Martínez is just stunning.
*DISCLAIMER* I received a free copy of this book for review purposes. I only accept books I think I’d like because life is too short to waste on bad books. That said if I don’t like a book, I’ll say so, free or not. With that out of the way, onto the review:
This is my favorite book so far this year. It’s not an easy read. There’s slavery, racism, sexism. While the violence isn’t depicted too graphically, it is there as you cannot tell this story without it. It should be noted there are mentions of rape, again because this story cannot be told without it.
Rebecca Hall has covered a piece of our history that most of us weren’t taught. Slavery, was a best, briefly mentioned when I was in school. This book reminds us that was intentional. The few puzzle pieces found, didn’t allow the entire story to be told. How do you tell the stories of humans who were stripped of their identities when they were forced into slavery? Names are often nowhere to be found. And the few names that do exist in the records, was still not enough to truly identify anyone. They were human who were effectively erased from the history books. I am glad that someone is still trying to honor the victims of these crimes against humanity.
Anyone who still doesn’t understand just how harmful this time period was and how it still deeply affects individuals and society as a whole today, should probably read this.
The subject matter is a bit too much for young children, but this would be a great way to help teach teens about slavery and women’s role in fighting back against it.
Also the artwork by Hugo Martínez is just stunning.
This is my favorite book so far this year. It’s not an easy read. There’s slavery, racism, sexism. While the violence isn’t depicted too graphically, it is there as you cannot tell this story without it. It should be noted there are mentions of rape, again because this story cannot be told without it.
Rebecca Hall has covered a piece of our history that most of us weren’t taught. Slavery, was a best, briefly mentioned when I was in school. This book reminds us that was intentional. The few puzzle pieces found, didn’t allow the entire story to be told. How do you tell the stories of humans who were stripped of their identities when they were forced into slavery? Names are often nowhere to be found. And the few names that do exist in the records, was still not enough to truly identify anyone. They were human who were effectively erased from the history books. I am glad that someone is still trying to honor the victims of these crimes against humanity.
Anyone who still doesn’t understand just how harmful this time period was and how it still deeply affects individuals and society as a whole today, should probably read this.
The subject matter is a bit too much for young children, but this would be a great way to help teach teens about slavery and women’s role in fighting back against it.
Also the artwork by Hugo Martínez is just stunning.
This is a solid weaving of past and present, personal and historical, research and speculation. Hall shows how the erasure of enslaved people keeps us from truly understanding the past, making the problems of the present harder on marginalized people.
Took a while to adjust to the illustrative style- it’s expressive, imagine Impressionism but in black and white. I appreciate how the author showed the physicality of slavery, I could see the trauma on faces.
Hall’s last chapter is a personal determination to make the pain of the past a motivator to change the future.
Took a while to adjust to the illustrative style- it’s expressive, imagine Impressionism but in black and white. I appreciate how the author showed the physicality of slavery, I could see the trauma on faces.
Hall’s last chapter is a personal determination to make the pain of the past a motivator to change the future.