This work critically examines the reimagining of slave narratives in contemporary African American and Caribbean literature through a postcolonial and intersectional lens. Focusing on Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch, this paper explores how these neo-slave narratives engage with themes of trauma, memory, silence, gender, and resistance, thereby expanding beyond traditional autobiographical slave testimonies. Employing postcolonial theory alongside feminist and queer perspectives, this analysis highlights how these literary works challenge colonial legacies by interrogating the ongoing psychological and cultural impacts of slavery, colonialism, and intersectional oppression on Black identities. The study underscores the hybrid identities and cultural negotiations present in Caribbean and African American contexts, emphasizing art and storytelling as tools of empowerment and healing. Both novels utilize innovative narrative forms, epistolary letters and mythic magical realism, to reclaim silenced voices and foreground gendered experiences. This comparative study aims to fill a scholarly gap by bridging African American and Caribbean literary traditions, illuminating their shared histories of displacement, cultural memory, and postcolonial resistance. Ultimately, this research demonstrates that contemporary slave narratives remain vital instruments for understanding and resisting historical trauma, affirming identity, and imagining new pathways of cultural survival in a global diasporic context.