- 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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Author Archives: Jerome Handler
Anti-Obeah Laws of the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760s to 2010
2011 (Jerome Handler) Anti-Obeah Laws of the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760s to 2010. 35th Annual Conference, Society for Caribbean Studies, International Slavery Museum, Liverpool. July 2011. Starting in Jamaica in 1760 and continuing to the present, scores of laws criminalizing obeah have … Continue reading
The Old Plantation Painting at Colonial Williamsburg: New Findings and Some Observations
2010 (Jerome S. Handler) “The Old Plantation Painting at Colonial Williamsburg: New Findings and Some Observations.” African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. December. Arguably the best known visual depiction of African American life during the eighteenth century, this small watercolor, owned by … Continue reading
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The Middle Passage and the Material Culture of Captive Africans
2009 (Jerome S. Handler) “The Middle Passage and the Material Culture of Captive Africans.” Slavery and Abolition 30: 1-26. Scholars of the Atlantic slave trade have not systematically addressed the question of what material objects or personal belongings captive Africans … Continue reading
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Gizzard Stones, Wari in the New World, and Slave Ships: Some Research Questions
2009 (Jerome S. Handler) “Gizzard Stones, Wari in the New World, and Slave Ships: Some Research Questions.” African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. June. Argues that archaeologically recovered so-called gizzard stones were not utilized for playing wari, the African board game, by … Continue reading
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Escrava Anastácia: The Iconographic History of a Brazilian Popular Saint
2009 (J. S. Handler and K. E. Hayes) “Escrava Anastácia: The Iconographic History of a Brazilian Popular Saint.” African Diaspora: Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global World 2: 1-27. This article describes the transformation of an image depicting an unnamed, … Continue reading
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Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Smoking Pipes, Tobacco, and the Middle Passage
2008 (Jerome S. Handler) “Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Smoking Pipes, Tobacco, and the Middle Passage.” African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. June. This paper briefly addresses tobacco consumption and pipe smoking in Western Africa, and the relevance of these practices … Continue reading
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