A Best Book of the Year by NPR and The Washington Post.

An imaginative and riveting tour de force that tells the “powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these female warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record.

My father released Negro Liberation in 1948. In 2026, this book will be re-released by Haymarket Press.

Dr. Hall and Hugo Martinez are currently writing their second book by Simon and Schuster, Conjure: Black Women Ending Slavery. Release date TBD.