The balloon in Washington Black floats beyond plantation smoke towards the grey-blue Atlantic and Halifax. That city's story flexes from commerce to conscience-- ships once fed the Caribbean mills; later, Halifax invited those fleeing slavery. Africville stands as both injury and witness, a Black neighbourhood whose spirit outlived its demolition. Into this location stepped Barbadian migrants: nurses, teachers, artists, and writers who made Canada larger than it knew-- Oliver Jones and Joe Sealy at the secrets, Cameron Bailey on the festival stage, Anne Cools in the Senate. Fiction compresses to illuminate; nonfiction broadens to remember. Together they reveal how Barbados and Nova Scotia shaped each other throughout centuries.
Struck play to see how fiction fulfills truth across the Atlantic.
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