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Wake : the hidden history of women-led slave revolts
Audience Adults
Published 2021 by Simon & Schuster, New York
ISBN 9781982115180
Bib Id 2445944
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description 208 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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2021-001239
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9781982115180 (hardcover) $30.00
1982115181
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GRAPHIC Wake
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Wake : the hidden history of women-led slave revolts
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication Information
2021 by Simon & Schuster, New York :
Description
208 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Form of Work
Comic or graphic novel
Note
Written "for my grandmother Harriet Thorpe Hall (1860-1927), for all the women who fought slavery, and for all of us living in its afterlife."-- Acknowledgments, Rebecca Hall.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Summary
"An historical and imaginative tour-de-force, WAKE brings to light for the first time the existence of enslaved black women warriors, whose stories can be traced by carefully scrutinizing historical records; and where the historical record goes silent, WAKE reconstructs the likely past of two female rebels, Adono and Alele, on the slave ship The Unity. WAKE is a graphic novel that offers invaluable insight into the struggle to survive whole as a black woman in today's America; it is a historiography that illuminates both the challenges and the necessity of uncovering the true stories of slavery; and it is an overdue reckoning with slavery in New York City where two of these armed revolts took place. It is, also, a transformative and transporting work of imaginative fiction, bringing to three-dimensional life Adono and Alele and their pasts as women warriors. In so doing, WAKE illustrates the humanity of the enslaved, the reality of their lived experiences, and the complexity of the history that has been, till now, so thoroughly erased"--
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Historical comics.
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Graphic novels
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