- 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
Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in Barbados
1998 (Jerome Handler) “Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in Barbados.” Slavery & Abolition 19: 129-41. Scholars of New World slavery and the transatlantic slave trade are well aware that there are very few first-hand accounts by enslaved Africans of their … Continue reading →
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Escaping Slavery in a Caribbean Plantation Society: Marronage in Barbados, 1650s-1830s
1997 (Jerome Handler) “Escaping Slavery in a Caribbean Plantation Society: Marronage in Barbados, 1650s-1830s.” Nieuwe West-Indische Gids–New West Indian Guide 71: 183-225. Slave flight or marronage, although not always with the intent or hope of permanently escaping the slave system, … Continue reading →
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An African-Type Healer/Diviner and His Grave Goods: A Burial from a Plantation Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies
1997 (Jerome S. Handler) “An African-Type Healer/Diviner and His Grave Goods: A Burial from a Plantation Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 1: 91-130. An adult male buried in the late 1600s or early 1700s … Continue reading →
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Slave Names and Naming in Barbados, 1650-1830
1996 (J. S. Handler and J. Jacoby) “Slave Names and Naming in Barbados, 1650-1830.” William and Mary Quarterly 53: 685-728. This article draws on a sample of Barbados slave names in order to examine the principles and significance of naming … 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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Determining African Birth from Skeletal Remains: A Note on Tooth Mutilation
1994 (Jerome S. Handler) “Determining African Birth from Skeletal Remains: A Note on Tooth Mutilation.” Historical Archaeology 28: 113-19. Tooth mutilation existed in sub-Saharan Africa, and was found among slaves transported to the New World. A small number of mutilation … Continue reading →
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Textual Evidence on the Nature of Early Barbadian Speech, 1676-1835
1994 (J. R. Rickford and J. S. Handler) “Textual Evidence on the Nature of Early Barbadian Speech, 1676-1835.” Journel of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9: 221-55. On the evidence of textual attestations from 1676-1835, early Barbadian English is shown to … 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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Inferring Fertility from Relative Mortality in Historically Controlled Cemetery Remains from Barbados
1989 (R. S. Corruccini, E. Brandon, and J. S. Handler) “Inferring Fertility from Relative Mortality in Historically Controlled Cemetery Remains from Barbados.” American Antiquity 54: 609-14 Fertility (crude birth rate) was estimated from skeletal and corresponding historical relative mortality ratios … Continue reading →
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Searching for a Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies: A Bioarchaeological and Ethnohistorical Investigation
1989 (J. S. Handler, with M. Conner and K. Jacobi), Searching for a Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies. A Bioarchaeological and Ethnohistorical Investigation. Chapters 1-5, Chapters 6-7, Chapter 8 and Appendix. Southern Illinois University: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Research … Continue reading →
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