Washington Black and Rogues In Paradise - From Cane Fields to Cold Harbour

The balloon in Washington Black floats beyond plantation smoke toward the grey-blue Atlantic and Halifax. That city's story bends from commerce to conscience-- ships once fed the Caribbean mills; later on, Halifax invited those getting away slavery. Africville stands as both injury and witness, a Black neighbourhood whose spirit outlasted its demolition. Into this location stepped Barbadian migrants: nurses, instructors, musicians, and authors 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 broadens to keep in mind. Together they expose how Barbados and Nova Scotia shaped each other across centuries.


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