Washington Black - Atlantic Bridge: Sugar, Rum, and Freedom
A young boy flies in a balloon above the cane-- a picture of escape that lands, improbably, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Fiction offers us the sensation; history provides us the frame. Halifax when provisioned the Caribbean sugar economy with timber and fish, then ended up being a waypoint to self-respect: a safe haven for freedom candidates running away in the Underground Railroad. On the harbour's edge, Africville informs a harder fact-- neighbourhood, faith, and music forged under pressure, later on eliminated, still kept in mind. From that family tree came Barbadian migrations that changed Canada's culture and politics: think Austin Clarke's prose, Cameron Bailey's movie theatre, and Senator Anne Cools's civil service-- doors opened, stories widened. The Atlantic bridge runs both methods: rum and sugar north, fish and lumber south, and across all of it, individuals bring memory.
View the teaser and find out about Africville and the Underground Railroad.
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