6/26/2023 0 Comments Rebecca hall graphic novel![]() ![]() It embraces a practice of careful imagination–of the names of women, of their biographies, and of their outcomes–which in turn demonstrates the value of imagination as a tool in historical reconstruction. ![]() Weaving together in-depth research with personal narrative, the novel is both an historical account and a commentary on history. ![]() Piecing together the lives and experiences of enslaved women at the front of slave revolts through painstaking archival work, while also detailing her own experience bringing this history to light, Hall reinserts Black female resistance into the very historical record which had previously excluded even the possibility of such a phenomenon. Rebecca Hall asks what gaps exist in accepted historical narratives, and what techniques we have at our disposal for not only making these gaps visible, but for remedying them. In her new graphic novel WAKE: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, Dr. With lawyer, historian, and writer Rebecca Hall Click here to RSVP Join Evenings with an Author (online) to discuss WAKE: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
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