Showing posts with label slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slavery. Show all posts
Thursday, October 20, 2022

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts is a graphic novel that works on a number of levels, and I was gobsmacked by how much i...
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Sunday, February 20, 2022

Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont

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Turner Family Stories is one of the most unique and interesting books I have read in recent times. It is a collection of comics that adapt ...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

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I have never read the novel Kindred , so I cannot really compare this version to the original, but I can say that after reading this adaptat...
Monday, November 30, 2020

Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase

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I have a lot of books on my to-read list, but I got this one in the mail the other day and it jumped to the top of the heap. I have reviewed...
Monday, February 20, 2017

The Hammer and the Anvil: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the End of Slavery in America

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The Hammer and the Anvil: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the End of Slavery in America is an expertly researched and told nonfi...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History

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Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History does exactly what its title says. I was shamefully unfamiliar with most of the ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

The Underground Abductor

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If you have been reading my blog and paying attention, you pretty much know that I think Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales are some of th...