Tag Archives: Barbados

Patterning of Skeletal Lead Content in Barbados Slaves

1987 (R. S. Corruccini, A. C. Aufderheide, J. S. Handler, and L. Wittmers) “Patterning of Skeletal Lead Content in Barbados Slaves.” Archaeometery 29: 233-39 Lead concentration patterns have proven useful in interpreting some aspects of slavery in colonial North American … Continue reading

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Lead Contact and Poisoning in Barbados Slaves: Historical, Chemical, and Biological Evidence

1986 (J. S. Handler, A. C. Aufderheide, and R. S. Corruccini) “Lead Contact and Poisoning in Barbados Slaves: Historical, Chemical, and Biological Evidence.” Social Science History 10: 399-425. Lead contact and lead poisoning have received scant attention in discussions of … Continue reading

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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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The Ethnohistorical Approach to Slavery

1985 (F. W. Lange and J. S. Handler) “The Ethnohistorical Approach to Slavery.” In T. Singleton, ed., The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life (New York: Academic Press), pp. 15-32. Drawing from experiences in the study of slavery in Barbados, … 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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Plantation Slave Life in Barbados: A Physical Anthropological Analysis

1983 (J. S. Handler and R. S. Corruccini) “Plantation Slave Life in Barbados: A Physical Anthropological Analysis.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 14: 65-90 In this paper we utilize physical anthropological data, recovered archaeologically from a plantation slave cemetery in Barbados, … Continue reading

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An African Pipe from a Slave, Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies

1983 (Jerome S. Handler) “An African Pipe from a Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies.” In P.Davey, ed., The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe: America. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 175: 245-54. A detailed description of a rare (for … 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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Tooth Mutilation in the Caribbean: Evidence from a Slave Burial Population in Barbados

1982 (J. S. Handler, R. S. Corruccini, and R. Mutaw) “Tooth Mutilation in the Caribbean: Evidence from a Slave Burial Population in Barbados.” Journal of Human Evolution 11: 297-313. Dental mutilation on slave burials excavated from a sugar plantation cemetery … Continue reading

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