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

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