Free copies of the book are available for all attendees. The events are free and open to the public. Hall will appear at two events on the Tulane campus to discuss the book, illustrated by New Orleans artist Hugo Martinez, and this spring’s Black Studies Book Club selection. Hall is “a historian, granddaughter of slaves and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery.” The New York Times Book Review described the book, which is part graphic novel and part memoir, as “powerful.” Wake “is operating in the wake of slavery, and in a state of being awake to the past, a process Hall frames as both devastating and grounding.”Īccording to the book’s publisher, Simon and Schuster, Dr. That’s the impetus behind the book, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts by Dr. The past is gone but we still live in its wake. 'Wake' has been described as part graphic novel, part memoir.
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