WAKE: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez is a riveting combination of graphic memoir and inspirational scholarship. An attorney frustrated by repeated encounters with sexism and racism in the criminal justice system, Hall returned to school to study for a PhD in history in a personal search for women warriors lost to history, as well as a larger scholarly goal to document women-led slave revolts during the colonial slave trade. In this eight-page excerpt Hall’s dogged efforts to research a slave revolt in 1712 in New York City sends her on a passionate academic quest that will take her to vast and sometimes restricted 18th century slave trade archives in New York City, London, and Liverpool. WAKE: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez will be published by S&S in June.