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A review by shoshin
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
4.0
I read this book for a class. It's haunting, and it's about being haunted by the painful history and ghosts of slavery in the United States. Hall has gone through a lot, both as a historian and as a person, and it all comes through starkly in this book.
That said, the illustrations were terrible. They sometimes added information and emotion to the story, but the illustrator's style was very distracting--it was so dark (and I mean that literally, lots of black ink, and not just because so many of the characters are Black) that it was physically difficult to parse what was going on in the images sometimes.
That said, the illustrations were terrible. They sometimes added information and emotion to the story, but the illustrator's style was very distracting--it was so dark (and I mean that literally, lots of black ink, and not just because so many of the characters are Black) that it was physically difficult to parse what was going on in the images sometimes.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder and Slavery
Moderate: War and Rape