- 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: Newton Plantation
From Cambay in India to Barbados in the Caribbean: Two Unique Beads from a Plantation Slave Cemetery
2007 (Jerome S. Handler) “From Cambay in India to Barbados in the Caribbean: Two Unique Beads from a Plantation Slave Cemetery.” African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. March. In the early 1970s, archaeological investigations at Newton plantation in Barbados recovered the skeletal … Continue reading →
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Problematical Glass Artifacts from Newton Plantation Slave Cemetery, Barbados
1998 (Jerome S. Handler) “Problematical Glass Artifacts from Newton Plantation Slave Cemetery, Barbados.” African American Archaeology 20: 1, 5-6. This paper discusses two virtually identical small translucent glass objects of apparent European manufacture that were found associated with two different … Continue reading →
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A Prone Burial from a Plantation Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies: Possible Evidence for an African-type Witch or Other Negatively Viewed Person
1996 (Jerome S. Handler) “A Prone Burial from a Plantation Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies: Possible Evidence for an African-type Witch or Other Negatively Viewed Person.” Historical Archaeology 30: 76-86. Dating to the late 1600s or early 1700s, a … Continue reading →
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Congenital Syphilis in the Past: Slaves at Newton Plantation, Barbados West Indies
1992 (K. Jacobi, D. Cook, R. Corruccini, and J. Handler) “Congenital Syphilis in the Past: Slaves at Newton Plantation, Barbados, West Indies.” AJPA 89: 145-58. Hutchinson’s incisors and Moon’s molars are specific lesions of congenital syphilis. The extensive but fragmentary … Continue reading →
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