Washington Black

The globetrotting journey of a gifted young boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation is told in Disney+’s ambitious period drama Washington Black, which follows the youngster as he battles persecution and pursues liberty against the odds. We first meet George Washington ‘Wash’ Black as a 19-year-old in 1837 when he is living incognito in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and developing a revolutionary flying machine, which he plans to exhibit in London. However, the arrival of bounty hunters brandishing a ‘W...