Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage.

Santa Cruz, Berkeley Law, UC Berkeley’s history department and at the University of Utah.Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. Her areas of research include the legal history of slavery and the slave trade, African American women’s history, and current legacies of slavery. On a quest for a deeper understanding of these structures, she pursued a PhD in history at UC Santa Cruz. An Indie Bestseller , Wakehas also received glowing reviews from The New York Times, NPR, and The Guardian, calling the graphic novel “stunning,” “powerful,” and “a must-read.”Īs a lawyer representing low-income tenants and homeless families for eight years, Rebecca bore witness to how her clients’ race, class and gender deformed the possibilities of their receiving justice through the legal system. Wake was selected as Steph Curry's June Literati Book Club Pick. Hall has spoken about her work and Wake to eager audiences at the National Antiracism Teach In, the Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival and at Black Gotham’s “Nerdy Thursdays” at the New York Historical Society. Wake went viral when it started as a Kickstarter campaign, earning coverage in Hyperallergicand Bustle. Her recent highly-acclaimed graphic novel, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, weaves history and memoir that focuses on slave revolts in the Middle Passage and in New York City and her own quest to uncover this unwritten history. Rebecca Hall is a scholar, activist and educator, who writes and speaks on the history of race, gender, law and resistance, as well as on climate justice and intersectional feminist theory. Hall shows in her work, women warriors were everywhere.Ĭo-sponsored by the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, English, History, and African American & African Studies (SASN).ĭr.

Hall will discuss the exhaustive archival research that challenges this longstanding erasure and, ultimately, created Wake – old court records, slave ship captain’s logs, crumbling correspondence, and even forensic evidence. As Dr. Rebecca Hall, author of the acclaimed graphic history on slavery, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts. The accepted history of Middle Passage slave revolts has always been that enslaved women rarely participated in revolt. Join the P3 Collaboratory and the Graduate School-Newark on Wednesday, March 2, for an event featuring Dr.

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