**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email.**

Author Rebecca Hall will discuss her book, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, in this ZOOM webinar. Named a 'Best Book of the Year' by NPR and The Washington Post, and a finalist for the N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards and the Pen American Open Book Award,  Wake -- part graphic novel, part memoir -- is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the powerful 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.

About The Book: Longtime women warriors planned and led revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history. Wake tells the riveting story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back seat. But Rebecca decides to look deeper, and her journey takes her through old court records, slave ship captain’s logs, crumbling correspondence, and even the forensic evidence from the bones of enslaved women from the “negro burying ground” uncovered in Manhattan. She finds women warriors everywhere.

About The Author: Rebecca Hall is an independent scholar, activist, and educator. Her paternal grandparents were born enslaved. Hall writes and publishes on the history of race, gender, law, and resistance as well as articles on climate justice and intersectional feminist theory. Her work has been supported by numerous grants and fellowships. She is a 2022-23 Radcliffe Institute Fellow.

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