Washington Black - From Cane Fields to Cold Harbour

A young boy floats in a balloon above the cane fields-- an image of escape that lands, improbably, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Fiction provides us the sensation; history offers us the frame. Halifax once provisioned the Caribbean sugar economy with timber and fish, then ended up being a waypoint to dignity: a safe haven for liberty hunters fleeing in the Underground Railroad. On the harbour's edge, Africville tells a harder reality-- community, faith, and music forged under pressure, later on erased, still remembered. From that lineage came Barbadian migrations that altered Canada's culture and politics: think Austin Clarke's prose, Cameron Bailey's cinema, and Senator Anne Cools's civil service-- doors opened, stories broadened. The Atlantic bridge runs both methods: rum and sugar north, fish and lumber south, and across it all, people carrying memory.


Press play, then check out how Barbados and Nova Scotia shaped each other.


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Moon calendar day by day: moon phase today, current moon, lunar days

Discover how Data Loss Prevention (DLP) safeguards your sensitive information. Learn the best strategies to protect your data today!

Maximizing Your Content Strategy with PLR