Part graphic novel, part memoir, it is a powerful reminder that while the past is gone, we still live in its wake. Strikingly illustrated in black and white, Wake explores both a personal and a global legacy.
Beneath both is Hall's own tale: of a life lived in the shadow of slavery and its consequences. 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. In Wake Rebecca Hall, a historian, a granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery, tells their story. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the passage across the Atlantic. Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the powerful (The New York Times Book Review) story of women-led slave. '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. Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martnez’s graphic book, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, embraces a more significant, more authentic history of resistance. an inspired and inspiring defence of heroic women whose struggles could be fuel for a more just future' Guardian
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