The TCCSN collects and curates a list of Caribbean traditional slave narratives currently available in the public domain. Visitors will be able to read a variety of narratives. These primary source documents will include several textual tags that heed Kim Gallon’s call for a distinct tradition of Black Digital Humanities that focuses on “the technology of recovery.” Primary source documents will be tagged by country, language, year, and gender to provide a spatial and temporal understanding of the ways Black bodies were trafficked, moved, and born throughout the Caribbean. For example, Mary Prince would include the following tags: Bermuda, English, 1831, and Female. Users will be able to search through the corpus using these tags.

 

Additionally, the database will include references to neo-slave Caribbean narratives such as Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River (1993), Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999), and Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women (2009) as well as narratives that do not explicitly address slavery but still interrogate its afterlives, such as Michelle Cliff’s Abeng (1984), Erna Brodber’s Myal (1988), and Curdella Forbes’s A Tall History of Sugar (2019).

 

Finally, TCCSN hopes to aid educators by providing several visual and experiential components such as an interactive map of the Caribbean, a chronologic infographic of all the primary source documents collected in the TCCSN database, and a video game called The Archivist.