Editing Halifax Explosion (section)

===Africville===
The [[black people|Black]] community of [[Africville]], on the southern shores of Bedford Basin adjacent to the [[Halifax Peninsula]], was spared the direct force of the blast by the shadow effect of the raised ground to the south.<ref name=dev/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Remes |first1=Jacob |title=What We Talk About When We Talk About Africville |journal=African American Review |date=Fall 2018 |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=223–231 |doi=10.1353/afa.2018.0034}}</ref> However, Africville's small and frail homes were heavily damaged by the explosion.<ref name=tat/> Families recorded the deaths of five residents.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://novascotia.ca/archives/virtual/remembrance/Results.asp?Search=Africville&fieldSelect=keyword |title=Halifax Explosion Book of Remembrance |publisher=Public Archives of Nova Scotia |date=2 December 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122034726/https://novascotia.ca/archives/virtual/remembrance/Results.asp?Search=Africville&fieldSelect=keyword|archivedate=22 January 2015}}</ref> A combination of persistent racism and a growing conviction that Africville should be demolished to make way for industrial development resulted in the people of Africville receiving no police or fire protection; they had to make do without water mains and sewer lines, despite paying city taxes.{{sfn|Sutherland|2017|p=7}} Africville received little of the donated relief funds and none of the progressive reconstruction invested in other parts of the city after the explosion.<ref name=tat>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/africville/|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia|title=Africville|author=Tattrie, Jon|date=27 January 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141104150224/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/africville/|archivedate=4 November 2014}}</ref><ref name=heb>{{cite journal|title=Building the old new order: Halifax in the wake of the great explosion|author=Hebert, Michelle|journal=New Maritimes|volume=14|issue=4|date=March–April 1996|pages=4–15}}</ref>