The Rogue Washinton Black - From Cane Fields to Cold Harbour

A boy flies in a balloon above the cane-- an image of escape that lands, unbelievably, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Fiction offers us the feeling; history provides us the frame. Halifax when provisioned the Caribbean sugar economy with lumber and fish, then became a waypoint to self-respect: a safe haven for liberty hunters leaving in the Underground Railroad. On the harbour's edge, Africville informs a harder reality-- neighbourhood, faith, and music forged under pressure, later erased, still kept in mind. From that family tree came Barbadian migrations that altered Canada's culture and politics: think Austin Clarke's prose, Cameron Bailey's cinema, and Senator Anne Cools's public service-- doors opened, stories widened. The Atlantic bridge runs both ways: rum and sugar north, fish and lumber south, and throughout all of it, people bring memory.


See the teaser, then dive into the real Halifax-- Barbados connection.