Fantasy and Reality In Wash and Rogue - Balloon over Barbados, Landfall in Halifax

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 as soon as fed the Caribbean mills; later, Halifax invited those getting away slavery. Africville stands as both injury and witness, a Black community whose spirit outlived its demolition. Into this location stepped Barbadian migrants: nurses, teachers, 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 brighten; nonfiction expands to remember. Together they reveal how Barbados and Nova Scotia shaped each other throughout centuries.


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