Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts — When Power Writes History
What happens when the institutions that shaped oppression also shape the records historians inherit?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by historian Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martínez, this episode investigates how archives shape what later generations are able to know about resistance, agency, and the people excluded from conventional historical narratives.
Hall searches court records, colonial archives, slave-trade documents, and fragmentary evidence for traces of enslaved women…
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