- 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: Obeah
Anti-Obeah Laws of the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760s to 2010
2011 (Jerome Handler) Anti-Obeah Laws of the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760s to 2010. 35th Annual Conference, Society for Caribbean Studies, International Slavery Museum, Liverpool. July 2011. Starting in Jamaica in 1760 and continuing to the present, scores of laws criminalizing obeah have … Continue reading
Obeah: Healing and Protection in West Indian Slave Life
2004 (K. M. Bilby and J. S. Handler) “Obeah: Healing and Protection in West Indian Slave Life.” Journal of Caribbean History 38: 153-183. Obeah encompasses a wide variety of beliefs and practices involving the control or channeling of supernatural spiritual … Continue reading