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I'm not much for Historical Non-fiction and I'm not that big on graphic novels. But the topic here is something I care about. This shows the resiliency of enslaved peoples and the negative impact on their ancestors and highlights current systems of oppression.

This is less a history of women leading slave revolts and more a graphic memoir of Hall exploring this topic and her emotional response to it. It emphasizes the degree to which black women‘s voices have been erased, including the erasure of so many names and stories. I found this deeply affecting.

This graphic history was fascinating and sobering, both for shining a light on the obscured history of black women's resistance to slavery, and for the author's own experience of casual and institutional racism as she endeavours to find the research materials needed for her doctoral thesis.
Challenging of patriarchal and white supremacist narratives, this was a personal account of the issues, and I hope Hall is encouraged to follow it up with ⬇️

This book is probably already on every CRT banned list. I found it an interesting look at how history is studied, constructed, and told. It‘s also a story of how history can be lost and destroyed by dominant cultures. I like graphic non-fiction because it has so much freedom to breathe life into forgotten (and suppressed) narratives.

Rebecca Hall left the NYC to pursue a law degree from Berkeley and became a tenant‘s rights attorney. To better help her clients and understand the justice system, she went back to school to earn a PhD in history focusing on slavery. From this, her story was found and written; the stories of slave women who led revolts. This is a power graphic novel exploring women and slavery. The graphics are pretty amazing as well!

A powerful graphic novel on a topic I knew nothing about before. Women were instrumental in slave revolts throughout the history of slavery in America. I hope she makes her dissertation into a full length history book because I would love to learn more about this.

This was between a pick and a so-so, but bumped up because of the fascinating information. Too important to not recommend. I think I would have preferred straight text to the graphic novel format. I liked reading about her struggles with research and what facts she uncovered; I didn't find the informed fictional stories engaging, and the art was confusing at times and didn't add a whole lot to either story being told.

This was the November pick for my book club at work. I am really enjoying graphic memoirs/nonfiction, and this one was a combination of both. It is about Hall‘s academic work and research as she struggles to find information in historic documents about enslaved women involved in revolts. The panel in the photo captures her frustration and the challenge she faced since these women were mostly ignored in these records.

The more women onboard a slave ship...

What drove them to revolt?
It is time for a measured use of historical imagination...

I wanted more! I don't know if it ended abruptly because the author had to shift to focus due to the resources available or if that was the point but it left me wanting more. What other stories did she find in her research journey? What happened with her dissertation?

What a beautiful, haunting history that has to be taught. Inspiring in its context and understanding of how women led slave revolts on ships and in the United States. A painful but important history lesson that must be taught. #NFN21 #NFN #NonFictNovember

Although I initially got this book thinking that I could teach it in my Graphic Literature class, upon reading, I‘ve determined it‘s too advanced for 7th grade…That being said, it‘s PHENOMENAL. I love a good non-fiction graphic novel, and the dual temporality of Hall‘s narration and Martínez‘s illustration is so unique and perfectly communicates visually how Hall is (or rather, we all are) haunted by slavery. I cannot recommend this book enough!

This will be a book that stays with me. Historian Rebecca Hall gives us the hidden history of women-led slave revolts, and the graphic novel illustrations of Hugo Martínez add another layer to the story, literally reflecting the past in the present.

While Hall‘s story is based in history, the tales in the book are imagined based on the known history since much has been erased, or is inaccessible to the historian, another fascinating aspect.

Wow! What a powerful read. You know a book has done its job when you want to hear more.

The author does the best she can with the scanty details that remain of women-led slave revolts. The art is arresting without doing overly graphic.

Well, like the title says the history of women-led slave revolts. It's Rebecca Hall's journey to find out more information for her dissertation. Her feelings of being buried as a black woman and their journey and how all are overlooked. How her research would wring her out and her struggle to find and untangle the information.

Loved it as a graphic novel and that the author was a character.

My book haul while librotraveling with friends in Denver. The Tattered Cover is a very cool place.

Finishing up some #netgalley reads for the end of #joysofjune this weekend. This book was amazing!!! Part memoir, part forgotten history of bad-a** black women who fought their enslavement. Parts of it were certainly difficult to read -- it's a graphic novel about slavery -- but it made the story just that much more impactful. Hall is an incredible historian and storyteller. I hope this is taught in schools! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The focus of this graphic novel are the women who participated in and often led slave revolts. Hall talks a lot about how they‘ve been written out of history and their voices silenced. She does what she can to give them a voice.

The hubs and I just picked this one up. I‘m excited to read it!

This book was so beautifully crafted- both aesthetically and in its storytelling. Hall weaves her own story of trying to uncover these hidden histories between accounts of various slave revolts. Martinez‘s visuals are stunning. I read this shortly after Clint Smith‘s How the Word is Passed. Both ask us to reconsider how we think about the history of chattel slavery.

4/5

This book was fantastic. It looks at the slave revolts that were lead by women, and how assumption and bias as allowed history to forget these stories and the voices of these women. The stories paired with the illustrations brought the history to life. It does a great job of combining these stories with the past of how the past continues to affect the present as Hall tries to do research now.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/16/secret-history-the-warrior-women-w...