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Author Hall, Rebecca, 1963- author.

Title Wake : the hidden history of women-led slave revolts / Rebecca Hall ; illustrated by Hugo Martínez ; lettered by Sarula Bao.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  GRAPHIC HALL    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  GRAPHIC NOVEL 326.8 HAL    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Department  GRAPHIC WAKE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  GRAPHIC NOVEL HALL    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Graphic Novels  GRAPHIC NOVEL HALL    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  GRAPHIC NOVEL WAKE    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Workroom  GRAPHIC YA 741.5 HALL    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Young Adult  GRAPHIC YA 741.5 HALL    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Graphic Novels  GN HALL    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  GN 326 HAL    Check Shelf

Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Graphic novels lcgft
Note Chiefly illustrations.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 208).
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
Summary "Part graphic novel, part memoir, "Wake" is an imaginative tour de force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall's efforts to uncover the truth about these warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history. "Wake" tells the story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back seat to men in fighting for freedom. But Rebecca decided to look deeper, and her journey takes her through old court records, slave ship captains' logs, crumbling correspondence, and even the forensic evidence from the bones of enslaved women from the "African burial ground" uncovered in Manhattan. She finds women warriors everywhere. Using in-depth archival research and a measured approach to historical imagination, Rebecca constructs the likely pasts of women rebels who fought for freedom during the Middle Passage, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in colonial New York. We also follow Rebecca's own story as the legacy of slavery shapes her life, both during the time as an attorney and later as a historian seeking the past that haunts her. The exploration of both a personal and national legacy, "Wake" is a powerful reminder that while the past is gone, we still live in its wake." -- jacket 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"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Enslaved women -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Slavery -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Slave rebellions -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Historiography -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Historiography -- Political aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Archives -- Social aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Archives -- Political aspects -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Historical comics.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Historical Fiction.
Archives -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst02013358
Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
Historiography -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00958230
Historiography -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00958228
Archives -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00814073
Slave insurrections. (OCoLC)fst01120389
Women slaves. (OCoLC)fst01178532
Women slaves -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Slave revolts -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Genre/Form Young adult fiction.
Young adult works. (OCoLC)fst01726790
Social issue comics. (OCoLC)fst02008995
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Historical comics. (OCoLC)fst01921682
Graphic novels. (OCoLC)fst01726630
Historical fiction.
Historical comics.
Social issue comics.
Graphic novels.
Added Author Martínez, Hugo (Comics artist), artist.
Bao, Sarula, letterer.
Other Form: Online version: Hall, Rebecca, 1963- Wake. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021 9781982115203 (DLC) 2021001240
ISBN 9781982115180 (hardcover)
1982115181 (hardcover)
9781982188016 (hardcover)
1982188014 (hardcover)
9781982115197 (paperback)
198211519X (paperback)
9781982115203 (electronic book)
Standard No. 40030620858
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