Arrogant British Empire seeks
embattled Black slaves
for the purposes of thwarting
American revolutionaries
and replacing
expelled Acadians
(damned French!)
to lay claim to Nova Scotia.

Transportation costs covered!
Ensure your name is listed in
The Book of Negroes
so you do not disembark
slave again.
(3000 free, 2500 slave
is not a bad ratio, eh?)

Come one, come all!
There’s farm land
(if you like to farm rocks)
And friends
(if you like racist rioters)
Freedom
(if you like separate, not equal)

You scratch our back, we break yours!
Having expelled the Acadians
we need British subjects
to subject to British Empire
thus laying claim to the land
that you cannot farm
and where we will deny all knowledge
of you being human.

(Note to ed.:
Please advertise later that)

In a few years,
an industrializing British Empire Canada
will want coal and steel
and we promise we will
steal your wages
after you arrive from
Barbados, Jamaica
unable to assimilate
like those from Scotland, Ireland:
all of you Black,
but not for long.

Eventually, we will be confused as it is proclaimed:
Africadia has arrived.