![]() ![]() She's searching for records of the Black women warriors she knows participated in slave revolts, work that requires her to read between every line and follow every disappearing trail. Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2021 May #2 *Starred Review* Educator and activist Hall, surrounded by stacks of books, tells readers on page nine of her first graphic novel, I am a historian.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. 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. 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. "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. ![]()
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