![]() ![]() After graduating Berkeley Law in 1989, she represented low-income tenants and homeless families for eight years before returning to get her PhDin history. ![]() Rebecca Hall, JD, PHD, is a scholar, activist, and educator. 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. The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back seat. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. 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. ![]() Rebecca Hall's Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts free or with book! Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts ![]()
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