Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Jacoby Ballard and the Noma Literary Prize

and the Noma Literary Prize

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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Jacoby Ballard and the Noma Literary PrizeBy Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martnez. Published by Particular Books. Softcover, 208 pages, B&W, 2021. A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and The Washington Post 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 revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Halls efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical