1980 (D. Gobert and J. S. Handler) “Barbados in the Apprenticeship Period: The Report of a French Colonial Official.” JBMHS 36: 108-28.
The French government sent observers to the British West Indies to gather specific information on the consequences of emancipation and the creation of a nonslave labor force. A. Bernard, the Attorney General at Guadeloupe, visited Barbados in 1835, and in the following year submitted his report to the French Colonial and Naval Minister.