Washington Black - Atlantic Bridge: Sugar, Rum, and Freedom
The Caribbean and Nova Scotia existed in ledgers: rum, sugar, fish, wood. Later they were in safe harbour, as Halifax opened doors to those leaving chains. Africville holds the memory-- resilience, music, Sunday finest-- along with a need to do much better. Barbadians in Canada stepped into that story and wrote brand-new chapters: Austin Clarke's books, Cameron Bailey's curatorship, Anne Cools's bench-breaking firsts. The balloon in Washington Black points to longing; the harbour indicate work-- of structure, welcoming, and keeping faith with liberty.
View the teaser, then explore the Halifax-- Barbados ties.
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