- 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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Weaning among West Indian Slaves: Historical and Bioanthropological Evidence from Barbados
1986 (J. S. Handler and R. S. Corruccini) “Weaning among West Indian Slaves: Historical and Bioanthropological Evidence from Barbados.” William and Mary Quarterly 43: 111-17. This article demonstrates how documentary and physical evidence can be brought to bear in shedding … Continue reading →
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Slave Manumissions and Freedmen in Seventeenth-Century Barbados
1984 (J. S. Handler and J. Pohlmann) “Slave Manumissions and Freedmen in Seventeenth-Century Barbados.” William and Mary Quarterly 41: 390-408. This article focuses on the manumission process and the characteristics of manumitted slaves from 1650 to 1700. The discussion treats … Continue reading →
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Freedmen and Slaves in the Barbados Militia
1984 (Jerome S. Handler) “Freedmen and Slaves in the Barbados Militia.” Journal of Caribbean History 19: 1-25. In this paper, I focus on a little treated subject in Caribbean history, the position of non-whites, particularly the recruitment and arming of … Continue reading →
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Slave revolts and conspiracies in seventeenth-century Barbados
1982 (Jerome Handler) “Slave revolts and conspiracies in seventeenth-century Barbados.” Nieuwe West-Indische Gids–New West Indian Guide 56: 5-43. The main purpose of this paper is to document and describe the major forms and incidents of collective slave resistance, or group … Continue reading →
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Joseph Rachell and Rachael Pringle-Polgreen: Petty Entrepreneurs
1981 (Jerome S. Handler) “Joseph Rachell and Rachael Pringle-Polgreen: Petty Entrepreneurs.” In G.Nash and D. Sweet, eds., Struggle and Survival in Colonial America (University of California Press), pp. 376-91. In addition to its large enslaved population, Barbados contained a minority … Continue reading →
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Aspects of Slave Life in Barbados: Music and its Cultural Context
1972 (J. S. Handler and C. Frisbie) “Aspects of Slave Life in Barbados: Music and its Cultural Context.” Caribbean Studies 9: 5-46. This article describes the musical and dance forms and activities found among Barbados slaves, delineates the sociocultural contexts … Continue reading →
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