Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Binding:Paperback sharing their secrets and desires

sharing their secrets and desires and private jokes

ashamed child still in her soul

And Brian Nelson

Gorgeous and devastating

Free-spirited Liv has always wanted to break free of her joyless family

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Binding:Paperback sharing their secrets and desiresA 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