Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Architects and powerful mojos--roles and traditions

and powerful mojos--roles and traditions that for centuries have been passed down to respond to Black struggles in real time

Nabuko Yoshiya

she bombs the most important exam of her medical career

In a world that perpetuates negative stereotypes about Black women

showing up in a leather jacket to save August's day when she needed it most

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Architects and powerful mojos--roles and traditionsA Best Book of the Year by NPR and The Washington Post An imaginative and riveting tour de force that tells the "powerful" (The New York Times Book Review) story of women led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall's efforts to uncover the truth about these female warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. Women warriors planned and led revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers