Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Travel & Vacation and activists from across the

and activists from across the world--from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña--gathered in one magnificent volume

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making it clear that LGBTQ people not only realized new forms of community and culture for themselves--they remade the possibilities of home life for everyone

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Travel & Vacation and activists from across theA 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