Africaville by Jeffrey Colvin [in Shelf Awareness]
25 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Canadian, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost
The town of Africville exists, designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1996. The small coastal community on the edge of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was home to black residents since the early 1800s, the majority with southern U.S. and Caribbean origins. Narrative magazine assistant editor Jeffrey...