Washington Black and Rogues In Paradise - Halifax: Safe Harbour, Hard History

The balloon in Washington Black floats beyond plantation smoke toward the grey-blue Atlantic and Halifax. That city's story flexes from commerce to conscience-- ships once fed the Caribbean mills; later on, Halifax welcomed those getting away slavery. Africville stands as both wound and witness, a Black community whose spirit outlasted its demolition. Into this location stepped Barbadian migrants: nurses, instructors, musicians, and writers who made Canada larger than it knew-- Oliver Jones and Joe Sealy at the keys, Cameron Bailey on the celebration phase, Anne Cools in the Senate. Fiction compresses to illuminate; nonfiction expands to keep in mind. Together they reveal how Barbados and Nova Scotia shaped each other across centuries.


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