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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
by Rebecca Hall
This book pulls no punches in the best way. The librarian in me is entranced by her journey in conducting research into these revolts, how to find records around the world in the courts, historical societies, libraries, museums: slave ship logs, letters traveling across the oceans hundreds of years before. I am also repulsed by the injustice of the institutional and racist barriers she faces in finding sources to name the women who lead these revolts. I am moved by the way Hall tells the story of slavery that haunts us to this day. "Like invisible forces have shaped everything around you . . . but you've lost the words to describe them. This is what it means to live in the wake of slavery." (pg. 2)