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Wake : the hidden history of women-led slave revolts
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
"An historical and imaginative tour-de-force, WAKE brings to light for the first time the existence of enslaved black women warriors, whose stories can be traced by carefully scrutinizing historical records; and where the historical record goes silent, WAKE reconstructs the likely past of two female rebels, Adono and Alele, on the slave ship The Unity. WAKE is a graphic novel that offers invaluable insight into the struggle to survive whole as a black woman in today's America; it is a historiography thatilluminates both the challenges and the necessity of uncovering the true stories of slavery; and it is an overdue reckoning with slavery in New York City where two of these armed revolts took place. It is, also, a transformative and transporting work of imaginative fiction, bringing to three-dimensional life Adono and Alele and their pasts as women warriors. In so doing, WAKE illustrates the humanity of the enslaved, the reality of their lived experiences, and the complexity of the history that has been,till now, so thoroughly erased"--
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- 15 of 18 copies available at Westchester Library System.
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| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Rochelle Public Library | 306.36 H (Text) Graphic Book |
31019156626494 |
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| Ossining Public Library | GRAPHIC NOVEL - 306.362 H (Text) Graphic Book |
31021153386171 |
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| Tuckahoe Public Library | YA GN HALL (Text) YA Graphic Book |
31034170171005 |
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| Warner Library | 973.3 HILL (Text) Nonfiction |
31033152275917 |
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| White Plains Public Library | 306.362 H (Text) Graphic Book |
31544101233401 |
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| Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library | 741.59 H (Text) Nonfiction |
31035613065803 |
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| Yonkers Riverfront Library | YA GRAPHIC NOVEL (Text) YA Graphic Book |
31035159945640 |
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| Yonkers Riverfront Library | YA GRAPHIC NOVEL (Text) YA Graphic Book |
31035162278732 |
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