Escape is only the very first chapter. Halifax turns the page. The port that as soon as provisioned sugar plantations relearned itself as a waypoint to freedom. The story of Africville-- its church, its senior citizens, its erasure-- asks Canada to keep in mind totally. Within this arc, Barbadian migrants helped develop a modern country: literature that listened, festivals that widened the frame, politics that included the omitted. Austin Clarke, Cameron Bailey, Anne Cools-- names that mean lots of. The teaser raises us; the history lands us.
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