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kate_m_m 's review for:
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
by Rebecca Hall
4.5 Really interesting account of Hall's own research process (from her dissertation) taking her to archives in different cities and countries in an attempt to locate historical records of women-led revolts. Shows the honest truth about how hard/near impossible it still is to even get many of these historical records, so some of what she does in this graphic is use some fictionalization to imagine what their stories might be. Connecting these stories to her own family history only serves to make the book's through line more powerful and relatable. Her website includes discussion guides and lots of sample lesson plans, this would be a great book for an APUSH class or upper-level history. Hugo Martinez's graphics are reminiscent of 17th/18th century block etchings, which fit to the content but I didn't personally enjoy.