This is the time of year when ingredients for severe thunderstorms come together most often. In most years, May is when the peak of tornado activity occurs in the United States. For many, warmer temperatures are one of the month's highlights as the first signs of summer emerge.īelow, we take a look at five changes that typically occur in the weather in May. The month's tornadic reputation is one of the first weather concerns that comes to mind, but the tropics also have to be watched. May ushers in several notable changes in the nation's weather compared to earlier in the spring. Keisha N.Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. Their courageous story, told with remarkable skill and elegance, offers hope and inspiration for us all. Through Hugo Martinez’s vivid graphics, combined with Hall’s brilliant insights and powerful storytelling, WAKE transports the reader to a moment in time when a group of Black women set out to overturn the institution of slavery in British North America. In this beautiful and moving graphic novel, historian Rebecca Hall unearths a history so often overlooked: the significant role Black women played in leading slave revolts.

Davis, professor emerita, Departments of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz Not only a riveting tale of Black women’s leadership of slave revolts but an equally dramatic story of the engaged scholarship that enabled its discovery. It is free for anyone to use, just remember to cite the source. It is divided into the following sections: 1. Rebecca Hall developed a high school teaching guide for Wake. Using in-depth archival research and a measured use of historical imagination, Hall constructs the likely pasts of Adono and Alele, women rebels who fought for freedom during the Middle Passage, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. But Hall decides to look deeper, and her journey takes her through old court records, slave ship captain’s logs, crumbling correspondence, and even the forensic evidence from the bones of enslaved women from the “negro burying ground” uncovered in Manhattan. The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back seat. Rebecca Hall, a historian and granddaughter of enslaved people. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas.

Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record.

Wake the hidden history