The Rogue Washinton Black - Between Empire and Home
A boy floats in a balloon above the sugar plantations-- a picture of escape that lands, unbelievably, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Fiction provides us the sensation; history offers us the frame. Halifax when provisioned the Caribbean sugar economy with timber and fish, then became a waypoint to dignity: a safe haven for flexibility applicants utilizing the Underground Railroad. On the harbour's edge, Africville informs a harder reality-- neighbourhood, faith, and music created under pressure, later on eliminated, still remembered. From that family tree came Barbadian migrations that changed Canada's culture and politics: think Austin Clarke's prose, Cameron Bailey's cinema, and Senator Anne Cools's public service-- doors opened, stories broadened. The Atlantic bridge runs both ways: rum and sugar north, fish and lumber south, and across all of it, individuals bring memory. See the clip-- then see the sources, context, and lived history. Barbadian identity