A podcast of archival recovery

Each record names a woman. We bring her name forward.

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.

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Colonial punishment records Trinidad

In the colonial archive of Trinidad

there are records that name
enslaved women, one by one,
and log what the system
called their offenses.

Written to administer power.
Never written to remember them.

— This podcast reads them anyway —

The work

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.

Where the work stands

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Trailer · out now · Season One

An Introduction

In each episode, I call the name of one enslaved woman and read her offense and punishment exactly as it was recorded. Our focus is the woman, not the spectacle of enslavement.

Prologue · arriving December 1, 2026

The season begins

The prologue opens the season, followed by the recovery of Maturine Burton: apprentice, mason, and a woman punished when the estate said she would not work.