News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

• home
• browse books
• book details:

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

by Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martinez - £20.00  Penguin Books Ltd (2021)
hardback    ISBN 13: 9780241523551 | ISBN 10: 0241523559

"Not only a riveting tale of Black women's leadership of slave revolts but an equally dramatic story of the engaged scholarship that enabled its discovery"
(Angela Y. Davis)

Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the passage across the Atlantic. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history.
 
In Wake Rebecca Hall, a historian, a granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery, tells their story. With in-depth archival research and a measured use of historical imagination, she constructs the likely pasts of women rebels who fought for freedom on slave ships bound to America, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. Beneath both is Hall's own tale: of a life lived in the shadow of slavery and its consequences. Strikingly illustrated in black and white, Wake explores both a personal and a global legacy.
 
Part graphic novel, part memoir, it is a powerful reminder that while the past is gone, we still live in its wake.

(Price & availability last checked: August 2021)

Order online Order by email Enquire about this book

Featured book: Recommended reads for Black History Month ,
In booklists: Black Women, Black, Asian and Middle Eastern Biography and Autobiography, Slavery & the Slave Trade, Women's Activism,
In categories: Feminism & Women, Black, Asian & Other Diasporas, History & Biography,
Warning: extract() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/newsfro/public_html/books/DisplayBookInfo.php on line 182
History & Biography, Changing the World,