brendaellis 's review for:

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

5.0

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Wake tackles both the history of slave revolts simultaneously with the black historian’s grappling with the cruelty and violence of slavery. I loved how it makes me stop and think. It’s important and unpleasant in the ways it should be.