Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall

59 reviews

aus10england's review

challenging dark mysterious

3.5

Beautifully researched and told, I found the art style very busy and hard to follow at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Colonisation, and Racism

bookdrunkard78's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Loved it! Forever interested in the parts of history that get erased and the voices that are silenced. It's important to me to seek out those stories/histories and be a witness to the forgotten. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Moderate: Murder, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Death

Minor: Racism, Violence, and Rape

thebookworm_queen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense slow-paced

4.0

Absolutely brilliant, from the design to the title and the history. The design features parallels and mirrors that add another layer to the story telling
Hall tells the untold stories of women slaves and I admire her bravery and determination as she went to great lengths to find their history. I found myself becoming livid and crying as I read about their history, please read care.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death, Racism, Violence, Racial slurs, and Slavery

elizabeth_1898's review

reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Violence, Suicide, Sexual assault, and Murder

elb22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

archiveofrasa's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.5

very insightful and easy to read. people always say "why didn't they fight back?" and my response has always been "why have you assumed they hadn't?"

my only issue is that I wish there was more, but I get that it's easier said than done. the pushback the author faced from trying to get the information she wanted was not surprising, but it's still so baffling how easily people refuse someone of their history and live in the 2020s (they're probably the ones filling up Instagram and Twitter comments with their vileness lol)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Racism

Moderate: Rape and Sexual violence

devan's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.75

This book was so well executed. The artwork was stunning. Rebecca Hall did a wonderful job of weaving her story through the stories of powerful forgotten women. Very well crafted.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery and Death

miblette's review

dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Violence, Slavery, Suicide, Hate crime, and Colonisation

juliette_d_03's review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery and Racism

avisreadsandreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Absolutely essential reading 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Murder, Violence, Colonisation, Death, Slavery, Racism, Suicide, Grief, Misogyny, War, and Trafficking

Moderate: Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Rape