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The Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA) is a publicly available archive platform for accessing, researching, and contributing pre-twentieth-century Caribbean textual materials. Texts include travel narratives, novels, poetry, natural histories, and diaries that have not been brought together before as a single collection focused on the Caribbean.
The ECDA has two primary related, overarching goals: the first is to uncover and make accessible a literary history of the Caribbean written or related by black, enslaved, Creole, indigenous, and/or colonized people. The ECDA aims to enable users—both scholars of the Caribbean as well as students—to use the digital archive as a site of revision and remix for exploring ways to decolonize the archive.
Subjects or Themes
Early Caribbean Society
Project Language(s)
English
Time Period
Geographic Location
Project Categories
Content Type
Text, Exhibitions, Artifacts
Target Audience(s)
Creators
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon and Nicole Aljoe
Year(s)
2011
Host Institution / Affiliation / Project Location
Northeastern University
Software Employed
Labor and Support
The estimated labor time devoted to the ECDA is roughly 40 hours per week. The support for the project is funded by Northeastern University (graduate student positions, work-study funds, internal research funds)
Project Cost
Partnerships, funding sources, or grant-funding acknowledgement
The ECDA is a project of Northeastern University's NULab: for Texts, Maps, and Networks and supported by the Digital Scholarship Group. Our archive data is managed through Snell Library's Digital Repository Service. And we have received generous financial support from The National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council for Learned Societies.
The ECDA also collaborates with the Digital Library of the Caribbean, Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, and the John Carter Brown Library.
