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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
by Rebecca Hall
Dr. Rebecca Hall wants to know more about women’s roles in slave revolts in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and in early American colonial history, because she still feels echoes of the treatment of Blacks then in the treatment Blacks receive now. But as she goes through the record, she finds that those who were making the records either erased or diminished the roles that women had in these revolts, in addition to people now wanting to pretend that these atrocious things didn’t happen. Looking at what little is there, Dr. Hall still pieces together a possible history of what may have happened and how these women could be they leaders of these revolts. This is a memoir of her search for these records and her stories of what likely happened.
This was excellent. It is both revealing of the atrocities of the slave-trade, but also the various ways that events or people have been erased or diminished from the record. We can’t learn from history if it’s not written down and we can’t study it. The stark black & white illustrations help emphasize the seriousness of the subject matter.
This was excellent. It is both revealing of the atrocities of the slave-trade, but also the various ways that events or people have been erased or diminished from the record. We can’t learn from history if it’s not written down and we can’t study it. The stark black & white illustrations help emphasize the seriousness of the subject matter.