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greenlivingaudioworm 's review for:
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
by Rebecca Hall
"History written by the victors always erases resistance. And those of us who live in the wake/ruins learn that we were inferior and needed to be conquered and enslaved. This is the afterlife of slavery that the victors need us to inhabit. One in which we have always already lost and have accepted our fate as handed to us. But we always resisted slavery. Our constant resistance was central to bringing about slavery's end."
This graphic novel is part memoir part nonfiction stories of what author Rebecca Hall believes happened during some of the earliest women-led slave revolts. Of course, we will probably never know what happened because records about enslaved people are short, at best. Hall shared many records where all we know about a person is they were numbered and they died at some point from their journey from Africa to the Americas. This book was difficult to read, for this reason, but I do have to admit I was expecting more nonfiction stories about these revolts rather than these stories mixed in with Hall's memoirs of going about writing this book and doing this research. I felt this damped the story and made it less effective, in my eyes. Regardless, this was an interesting graphic novel to read and I appreciated all of the details in the illustrations. It was really quite something.
TW: slavery, violence
**Thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
This graphic novel is part memoir part nonfiction stories of what author Rebecca Hall believes happened during some of the earliest women-led slave revolts. Of course, we will probably never know what happened because records about enslaved people are short, at best. Hall shared many records where all we know about a person is they were numbered and they died at some point from their journey from Africa to the Americas. This book was difficult to read, for this reason, but I do have to admit I was expecting more nonfiction stories about these revolts rather than these stories mixed in with Hall's memoirs of going about writing this book and doing this research. I felt this damped the story and made it less effective, in my eyes. Regardless, this was an interesting graphic novel to read and I appreciated all of the details in the illustrations. It was really quite something.
TW: slavery, violence
**Thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.