- 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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Tag Archives: Barbados
Aspects of Amerindian Ethnography in 17th Century Barbados
1970 (Jerome S. Handler) “Aspects of Amerindian Ethnography in 17th Century Barbados.“ Caribbean Studies 9: 50-72. An ethnohistorical study of the island’s small enslaved Amerindian population, focusing on material life and its possible influence on persons of European and African … Continue reading →
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Swiss Medical Doctor’s Description of Barbados in 1661: The account of Felix Christian Spoeri
1969 (A. Gunkel and J. S. Handler ) “A Swiss Medical Doctor’s Description of Barbados in 1661. The Account of Christian Spoeri.” JBMHS 33: 3-13. A German-speaking Swiss physician and surgeon, Spoeri visited Barbados at least three times during the … Continue reading →
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Review of “English Rustics in Black Skin: A Study of Modern Family Forms in a Pre-lndustrialized Society”, by Sidney M. Greenfield
1969 (Jerome S. Handler) “Book Review of English Rustics in Black Skin: A Study of Modern Family Forms in a Pre-lndustrialized Society.” Sidney M. Greenfield. New Haven: College and University Press, American Anthropologist 71: 335-337. This review argues against the … Continue reading →
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The Amerindian Slave Population in Barbados in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
1969 (Jerome S. Handler) “The Amerindian Slave Population in Barbados in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries.” Caribbean Studies 8: 38-64. Shortly after Barbados was colonized in 1627, a small group of Amerindians from Guiana was brought to the island … Continue reading →
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Father Antoine Biet’s Visit to Barbados in 1654
1967 (Jerome S. Handler) “Father Antoine Biet’s Visit to Barbados in 1654.” JBMHS.32: 56-76. In 1651, a French company obtained its government’s permission to re-establish a colony in Cayenne . Between 500-600 persons were recruited for this venture, and these … Continue reading →
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Small-Scale Sugar Cane Farming in Barbados
1966 (Jerome S. Handler) “Small-Scale Sugar Cane Farming in Barbados.” Ethnology 5: 264-83. This paper describes the more prominent socio-cultural aspects of cane farming on small holdings and accounts for the importance of sugar as a cash crop in terms … Continue reading →
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Some Aspects of Work Organization on Sugar Plantations in Barbados
1965 (Jerome Handler) “Some Aspects of Work Organization on Sugar Plantations in Barbados.” Ethnology 4: 16-38. This paper is specifically concerned with the more salient features of work organization on several small-scale sugar plantations in the Scotland or highland district … Continue reading →
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The History of Arrowroot Production in Barbados and the Chalky Mount Arrowroot Growers’ Association, a Peasant Marketing Experiment that Failed
1965 (Jerome S. Handler) “The History of Arrowroot Production in Barbados and the Chalky Mount Arrowroot Growers’ Association, a Peasant Marketing Experiment that Failed.” JBMHS 31: 131-52. Over the years Barbados has produced and exported a variety of minor cash … Continue reading →
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Pottery Making in Rural Barbados
1963 (Jerome Handler) “Pottery Making in Rural Barbados.” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 19: 314-34. This paper describes some of the more salient technological, economic, and sociological factors surrounding the production of pottery as these existed in the early 1960s, when … Continue reading →
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A Historical Sketch of Pottery Manufacture in Barbados
1963 (Jerome S. Handler) “A Historical Sketch of Pottery Manufacture in Barbados.” JBMHS 30: 129-53. Traces the roots of the island’s pottery industry within the context of the needs of early sugar manufacturing and the kinds of vessels that were … Continue reading →
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