Reclaiming the Past in Caryl Phillips s Cambridge

Black-Atlantic writer Caryl Phillips portrays slavery as an experience of trauma, death and survival leading to the suppression demand for assertion Black identity. The protagonist Cambridge is liberated resold into plantation slavery; so, his life sealed by Middle Passage which drifts him from shores Guinea Caribbean 19th century. His passage represents Africans’ never-ending trauma that continued even after trade became illegal. As a survivor, he feels responsible Blacks. By exploring Shoshana Felman’s “the burden witness,” this paper reads neo-archival retelling history slavery.