Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
By: Rebecca Hall
4.30
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women…
Want to Read $ 14.99"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"History written by the victors always erases the resistance. And those of us who live in the wake/ruins learn that we're inferior and needed to be conquered and enslaved. This is the afterlife of slavery that the victors need us to inhabit. One in which we have always already lost and have accepted our fate a handed to us."-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
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2. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
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3. Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies
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6. Run: Book One
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Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
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4.35
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8. Lunar New Year Love Story
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9. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
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Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This--a timely and moving meditation on isolation… read more
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15. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
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4.30
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"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"History written by the victors always erases the resistance. And those of us who live in the wake/ruins learn that we're inferior and needed to be conquered and enslaved. This is the afterlife of sla…"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
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