Publication

2021-06-01 - 37 INK

Language

English

Word Count

52,000 words, Guess

Page Count

208 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781982115180
  • ISBN-101982115181
  • AmazonB08LDV6PPK
  • Library of Congress Control Number2021001239
  • OCLC Control Number1232014453
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781982115180
  • Open LibraryOL32491798M

Classifications

  • LCCPN6727.H2556W35 2021
  • LCCPN6727.H2556 W35 2021

Description

"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"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave RevoltsHardcover37 INK2021-06-01

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