Washington Black - Atlantic Bridge: Sugar, Rum, and Freedom

The Caribbean and Nova Scotia met in journals: rum, sugar, fish, lumber. Later on they existed in safe harbour, as Halifax opened doors to those leaving bondage. Africville holds the memory-- resilience, music, Sunday best-- alongside a demand to do better. Barbadians in Canada stepped into that story and composed brand-new chapters: Austin Clarke's novels, Cameron Bailey's curatorship, Anne Cools's bench-breaking firsts. The balloon in Washington Black indicates yearning; the harbour points to work-- of structure, welcoming, and keeping faith with freedom.


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