Author Archives: Jerome Handler

Identifying pictorial images of Atlantic slavery: Three case studies

Posted on 2006 by Jerome Handler

2006 (J. S. Handler and A. Steiner) “Identifying pictorial images of Atlantic slavery: Three case studies.” Slavery & Abolition 27: 49-69. During the last several decades, the number of publications on New World slavery and the Atlantic slave trade has … Continue reading →

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On Interpreting Slave Status from Archaeological Remains

Posted on 2006 by Jerome Handler

2006 (J. S. Handler and F. W. Lange) “On Interpreting Slave Status from Archaeological Remains.” African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. June. An early colonial period church cemetery in Campeche, Mexico yielded the skeletal remains of persons who investigators identified as African … Continue reading →

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Diseases and Medical Disabilities of Enslaved Barbadians, From the Seventeenth Century to around 1838

Posted on 2006 by Jerome Handler

2006 (Jerome Handler) “Diseases and Medical Disabilities of Enslaved Barbadians, From the Seventeenth Century to around 1838, Part I, Part II.” Journal of Caribbean History 40: 1-38 and 40: 177-214. The disease environment, health problems, and causes of mortality of … Continue reading →

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A Rare Eighteenth-Century Tract in Defense of Slavery in Barbados: The Thoughts of the Rev. John Duke, Curate of St. Michael

Posted on 2005 by Jerome Handler

2005 (Jerome S. Handler) “A Rare Eighteenth-Century Tract in Defense of Slavery in Barbados: The Thoughts of the Rev. John Duke, Curate of St. Michael.”  JBMHS 51: 58-65. In this article I summarize the contents and argument of this rare … Continue reading →

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Obeah: Healing and Protection in West Indian Slave Life

Posted on 2004 by Jerome Handler

2004 (K. M. Bilby and J. S. Handler) “Obeah: Healing and Protection in West Indian Slave Life.”  Journal of Caribbean History 38: 153-183. Obeah encompasses a wide variety of beliefs and practices involving the control or channeling of supernatural spiritual … Continue reading →

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Plantation Slave Settlements in Barbados, 1650s to 1834

Posted on 2002 by Jerome Handler

2002 (Jerome Handler) “Plantation Slave Settlements in Barbados, 1650s to 1834.” In A. Thompson, ed., In the Shadow of the Plantation: Caribbean History and Legacy (Ian Randle publisher, Kingston, Jamaica),  pp. 121-158. This paper describes the antecedents of many rural … Continue reading →

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Survivors of the Middle Passage: Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in British America

Posted on 2002 by Jerome Handler

2002 (Jerome S. Handler) “Survivors of the Middle Passage: Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in British America.” Slavery & Abolition 23: 25-56. This paper describes fifteen autobiographical accounts by Africans who survived the physical and psychic hardships of the transatlantic … Continue reading →

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On the Early Use and Origin of the Term ‘Obeah’ in Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean

Posted on 2001 by Jerome Handler

2001 (J. S. Handler and K. M. Bilby) “On the Early Use and Origin of the Term ‘Obeah’ in Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean.” Slavery & Abolition 22: 87-100. The medicinal complex of Barbadian (and other Caribbean slaves) fundamentally rested … Continue reading →

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The 1816 Slave Revolt in Barbados: An Exchange in Barbados Newspapers

Posted on 2000 by Jerome Handler

2000 (Jerome Handler) “The Barbados Slave Insurrection of 1816: Can it be properly called “Bussa’s Rebellion”?” The Advocate and The Nation, March and April. A heated exchange in two Barbados newspapers concerning the only slave revolt in the island’s history. … Continue reading →

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Slave medicine and Obeah in Barbados, circa 1650 to 1834

Posted on 2000 by Jerome Handler

2000 (Jerome Handler) “Slave medicine and Obeah in Barbados, circa 1650 to 1834.” Nieuwe West-Indische Gids–New West Indian Guide 74: 57-60. This article describes the medical beliefs and practices of Barbadian slaves. Author discusses the role of supernatural forces in … Continue reading →

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