Wake is about the central role of women in resistance to slavery, and how that role has been overlooked, either because women were ignored in the historical record, or because later historians couldn’t perceive that women could be historical actors. The book is mostly about how to look between the lines of historical records to reimagine the historical narrative. In this way reading Wake reminded me of the Dawn of Everything.  I like the visual juxtaposition between the present-day settings and the historical scenes of enslaved people who built those places. While Hall’s research being obstructed by the various institutions who held the historical records was infuriating, in a way the fact that many institutions are sensitive about historians accessing their slavery records it at least means they fear some sort of consequences for their institutions’ criminal involvement in slavery.