In the colonial archives of Trinidad there are punishment records that name enslaved women and catalog what the system called their offenses. This podcast reads them closely, follows the paper trail, and insists these women are not lost. They are waiting in the archive.
These records were written to administer colonial power, not to remember the women inside them. A name, an offense, a punishment, logged to catalog the woman as property while erasing her humanity. This podcast reads the records, closely, and without invention.
Each episode follows one woman through the archive. We read what the system recorded: her name, her occupation, and acknowledge her presence in a world built to erase her humanity. We do not reconstruct what she felt. We stay with what survived.
It is hosted by Listra Mitchell-Hunt, a descendant of the enslaved women of Trinidad. They left no grave markers and received no tributes. They are in the archive. This podcast brings them home.
The prologue arrives October 1. To be told when the first episode is published, write to us and we will let you know.
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