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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
by Hugo Martínez, Rebecca Hall
challenging
dark
reflective
fast-paced
This was a bit of a disappointing read as I was expecting to learn about women led slave revolts (as the title suggests) but received little to no tangible evidence to support Hall’s claims. This graphic memoir instead, focuses primarily on Hall’s own expedition to unearth archives alongside her frustrations and distress from the obstacles she encounters to access historical information. As a result, readers simply get tiny morsels of data that Hall utilizes to develop her own speculative revolt stories. While some ship logs reveal that women slaves were left unchained on quarter decks, it is not wholly clear whether those women truly led or partook in the insurrections. Therefore, this book left me feeling unsatisfied and wanting to know even more than what was shared.