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here's a recap of all the comics I recommended this Black History Month. Read these titles now and all year around !
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Comic Review: Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Dr. Rebecca Hall illustrated by Hugo Martínez
It's International Women's Day and I have a review on theme for you. My book club's February pick was by a Black historian and writer, Dr. Rebecca Hall. Along with illustrator Hugo Martinez, this comic reads as part memoir, part historical fiction.
This type of work is essential in a world that still has a prison industrial system, still oppresses women and especially Black women, is constantly reshaping US history in early education to not even teach kids about slavery, and has never once acknowledged its complicit history in a genocide that lead to the Black American identity. If we don't know the history of revolution during the transatlantic slave trade, many of which were started by women according to Dr. Hall's conclusions, then how can we fight against today's oppression fully? Lost histories don't contain all the answers, but they certainly show patterns.