Brooklyn Public Library: "CBH TALK - What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You: Claiming the Untold Stories of Enslaved Women Warriors" - 10/28/21

[Image Description: An image with three columns. On the left is a photograph of scholar Rebecca Hall, who has dreadlocks and wears eyeglasses with a black blazer and white T-shirt. In the middle column is a book cover reading “WAKE” and “THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF WOMEN-LED SLAVE REVOLTS.” On the bottom of the book cover is an image of 8 slaves on an overlook focusing on the cityscape before them. In the right column is a photograph of educator Nneka Dennie, who smiles, has short black hair, and is wearing a light blue shirt.]

CBH TALK - What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You: Claiming the Untold Stories of Enslaved Women Warriors
Thursday, October 28, 2021
6:30-7:30pm EST
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When the archives run dry, what is a historian to do? Rebecca Hall’s recently released graphic novel Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, both uncovers history and explores the historians’ work; the immense effort to scour the archive, and the frustration when the search turns up little. This is the case in Hall’s quest to uncover the history of enslaved women rebels. Wake weaves the true story of her search with a deeply personal narrative that honors the courage and agency of enslaved women. Part memoir, part archival excavation, part informed imaginings, Wake defies categorization even as it inspires the imagination. Hall discusses all of these threads with Black feminist scholar Nneka Dennie.

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