Magazine. “As far back as I can remember, I’ve been searching for women warriors,” Hall reflects in the opening pages of her book. Wake was listed as a Best Book of 2021 by NPR and The Washington Post, Forbes, and Ms. Image Awards and the Pen America Open Book Award. The resulting work, “Wake: The Hidden History of Women Led Slave Revolts,” won multiple awards and was a finalist for the N.A.A.C.P. Please make sure to check your spam folder if you don't see it initially.Taking one’s doctoral dissertation and transforming it into a graphic narrative was certainly not an ordinary choice, but it was exactly what author and independent scholar Rebecca Hall did. When you register for this event, you'll receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link sent from the Watertown Public Library. Registration will remain open until the program start time. This program is presented in partnership with the Watertown Public Library and other MA libraries. She is a 2022-23 Radcliffe Institute Fellow. Her work has been supported by numerous grants and fellowships. Wake has been listed as a Best Book of 2021 by NPR and The Washington Post, Forbes, and Ms. Her most recent book, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts (Simon & Schuster, 2021) has won multiple awards, and was a finalist for the N.A.A.C.P. She writes and publishes on the history of race, gender, law, and resistance as well as articles on climate justice and intersectional feminist theory.

Her paternal grandparents were born enslaved. Rebecca Hall, JD PhD is an independent scholar, activist, and educator.

But in the process, she learns that the power of these women’s resistance, buried in the past, is still very much alive. We also follow Rebecca’s own story of resistance as living in the wake of slavery continues to shape her own life - both as a successful attorney and later as a historian seeking the past that haunts her. Hall brings to life the women who fought for freedom during the Middle Passage and the women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. Using in-depth archival research and the measured use of historical imagination, Dr. 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. The accepted history of slave revolts tells her that enslaved women took a back seat. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts (written by Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martinez) tells the story of Dr. Rebecca Hall joins us virtually to discuss her groundbreaking graphic novel Wake. This year's Black History Month honors Black Resistance throughout history and today.

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