Fiction raises us skyward; history asks what happens when our feet touch ground. Halifax's shift-- from provider to the sugar isles to haven for the hunted-- is proof that places can alter their purpose. Africville, born of exemption and rich in neighbourhood, remains a compass. Into this area came Barbadian migration: ward nurses and teachers, writers and pianists, public servants and 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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