Producers
Dr. Valerie Mason-John Dr. Afua Cooper
Executive Producer
John Hennigar-Shuh
Associate Producer
Dawn Harwood-Jones
Creative Directors
Dr. Valerie Mason-John Dr. Afua Cooper
Director of Camera
Sobaz Benjamin
Historical Consultant
Dr. Afua Cooper
Historical Research
David Woods
Project Concept
Dr. Afua Cooper Dr. Valerie Mason-John
Archive Researcher
Pat Kipping
Logo Design
Etta Moffatt
Writers
Afua Cooper – “15 Ships” and “Captain Leonard Parkinson”
David Woods – “The Panther that Roared“, “Requiem for (Africville) and Africville”
El Jones – “James R Johnston”
George Elliot Clarke – “Richard Preston”
Jacob Sampsons – “William Hall”
Sylvia Hamilton – “Letter to my Mother/Portia White”
Valerie Mason-John – “The Ghost of Thomas Peters“, “George Dixon“, “Viola Desmond“, and “Captain Leonard Parkinson”
Quanda Johnson – “Ellen and William Craft“
Actor Casting/Training
David Woods
Actors
Antoine Awabajy
Jayla James
Lindell Smith
Nathan Simmons
Trevor Silver
Quanda Johnson
Performance Poets
Afua Cooper
El Jones
George Elliot Clarke
Sylvia D Hamilton
Valerie Mason-John
Storyteller
Melinda Daye
Camera
Robert Guertin
Everett Stone
Editors
Antione Abawajy
Dawn Harwood Jones
Sound
Ryan Gannon
Rebecca Herritt
Make up
Milla Pak
Project Manager
John Wedderburn
Web Master & Web Design
SinaSys Inc.
Web Consultant
Aaron Johnson
Sina Raeisi
Special Thanks
Taylor Quinn
Esther Rausenberg
Isaac Saney
Michelle Williams
Kim Reinhardt
Jenny Nodelman
Gerry Lunn
Ian Mullan
Sunday Miller
Mr Darcy
Kevin Robins
Lindsey Hunnewell
Paul Ash
Africville Museum
Schulich School of Law
Maritime Museum
Canada Council for The Arts
Palooka’s Gym
Gordon McLennan
Jessica Mailhiot
Shalyn Falomi Jones
Sarah Wakely
Derek Harrison
Richard MacMichael
Alison MacKenzie
Joan Hicks
Carla Wheaton
Elizabeth Sanford
Max Blades
David Woods
Thomas Henderson
The Weldon Law Building
Dalhousie University
Citadel Hill
Kwacha House Cafe
Starbucks Halifax
Partners
Media Partners
Eastlink
CBC
Herald
Sponsors
Shaw Group Ltd
Marjorie Lindsay
Mickey MacDonald and Colin MacDonald (Palooka’s Gym)
Jack and Joan Cleather
Peter Green
The Craig Foundation