Fiction lifts us skyward; history asks what takes place when our feet touch ground. Halifax’s shift– from provider to the sugar isles to haven for the hunted– is evidence that locations can alter their function. Africville, born of exclusion and rich in neighbourhood, is a compass. Into this space came Barbadian migration: ward nurses and schoolteachers, authors and pianists, public servants and professional athletes. Oliver Jones, Joe Sealy, Cameron Bailey, Anne Cools, Andre De Grasse– each a waypoint on a longer journey to belonging.
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