Washington Black - Harbour Lights on a Winter Morning

The balloon in Washington Black drifts beyond plantation smoke towards the grey-blue Atlantic and Halifax. That city's story bends from commerce to conscience-- ships as soon as fed the Caribbean mills; later on, Halifax welcomed those running away slavery. Africville stands as both wound and witness, a Black neighbourhood whose spirit outlived its demolition. Into this geography stepped Barbadian migrants: nurses, teachers, musicians, and authors who made Canada larger than it understood-- Oliver Jones and Joe Sealy at the keys, Cameron Bailey on the festival stage, 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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Barbados to Halifax