- This website brings together a selected list of my publications which have appeared since the early 1960s in widely scattered sources. These publications treat a variety of topics dealing with slavery in Barbados and the Atlantic World as well as some aspects of production activities in modern rural Barbados.
Categories
- American Civil War
- Amerindians in Barbados
- Archives Department, Barbados
- Atlantic Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Barbados History and Society: Bibliographic and Miscellany
- Biological Anthropology of Enslaved Barbadians
- Early Foreign Travel Accounts of Barbados
- Obeah
- Ph.D. Dissertation 1965
- Slavery and Slave Life in Barbados
- Slavery and Slave Life: Archaeological Studies
- Sugar, Arrowroot, and Pottery Production
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Category Archives: Atlantic Slavery and the Slave Trade
Legacy Websites: The Case of Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora
2022 (H. B. Lovejoy & J. S. Handler) “Legacy Websites: The Case of Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora,” In P. E. Lovejoy, H. B. Lovejoy, E. M. … Continue reading
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The Old Plantation Painting at Colonial Williamsburg: New Findings and Some Observations
2010 (Jerome S. Handler) “The Old Plantation Painting at Colonial Williamsburg: New Findings and Some Observations.” African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. December. Arguably the best known visual depiction of African American life during the eighteenth century, this small watercolor, owned by … Continue reading
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The Middle Passage and the Material Culture of Captive Africans
2009 (Jerome S. Handler) “The Middle Passage and the Material Culture of Captive Africans.” Slavery and Abolition 30: 1-26. Scholars of the Atlantic slave trade have not systematically addressed the question of what material objects or personal belongings captive Africans … Continue reading
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Escrava Anastácia: The Iconographic History of a Brazilian Popular Saint
2009 (J. S. Handler and K. E. Hayes) “Escrava Anastácia: The Iconographic History of a Brazilian Popular Saint.” African Diaspora: Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global World 2: 1-27. This article describes the transformation of an image depicting an unnamed, … Continue reading
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The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
2009 (J. S. Handler and M. Tuite) The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record. The approximately 1,235 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from … Continue reading
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Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Smoking Pipes, Tobacco, and the Middle Passage
2008 (Jerome S. Handler) “Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Smoking Pipes, Tobacco, and the Middle Passage.” African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. June. This paper briefly addresses tobacco consumption and pipe smoking in Western Africa, and the relevance of these practices … Continue reading
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Identifying pictorial images of Atlantic slavery: Three case studies
2006 (J. S. Handler and A. Steiner) “Identifying pictorial images of Atlantic slavery: Three case studies.” Slavery & Abolition 27: 49-69. During the last several decades, the number of publications on New World slavery and the Atlantic slave trade has … Continue reading
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Survivors of the Middle Passage: Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in British America
2002 (Jerome S. Handler) “Survivors of the Middle Passage: Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in British America.” Slavery & Abolition 23: 25-56. This paper describes fifteen autobiographical accounts by Africans who survived the physical and psychic hardships of the transatlantic … Continue reading
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