Book Description | The untold history of slave revolts led by women. Women warriors planned and led revolts on slave ships across the Middle Passage, and opposed slavery in the Americas, and then history did not mention anything about them. Dr. Rebecca Hall, history professor and granddaughter of slaves, talks about the legacy of slavery that haunts her. The history of slave revolts told her that women had always been on the back burner. But she decided to look deeper, and her journey took her to old court records, journals of slave ship captains, fragmented correspondence, and even forensic evidence from the bones of enslaved women from a “Negro cemetery” uncovered in Manhattan. I found women warriors everywhere. An illustrated story and part autobiography, a special fictional work that documents an arduous journey to uncover one of the most prominent forgotten female roles in history. |