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Vernacular Houses and Domestic Material Culture on Barbados Sugar Plantations, 1650-1838

2009 (J. S. Handler and S. Bergman) “Vernacular Houses and Domestic Material Culture on Barbados Sugar Plantations, 1650-1838.” Journal of Caribbean History 43: 1-36. This paper describes the houses and household furnishings of the enslaved people on Barbadian sugar plantations, … 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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