Black Harbour's fiction as history

New book repeats same falsehoods as earlier CBC series

Boulder’s book version of the three part CBC series on Africans in Newfoundland and Labrador by fiction writer Xaiver Michael Campbell and CBC producer Heather Barrett recycles the same half-baked bits of assumption and sloppy research to produce the same modern, popular racism as the series.

Campbell and Barrett wanted to “open a can of worms” to borro…