Author Archives: Jerome Handler

Lead Contact and Poisoning in Barbados Slaves: Historical, Chemical, and Biological Evidence

Posted on 1986 by Jerome Handler

1986 (J. S. Handler, A. C. Aufderheide, and R. S. Corruccini) “Lead Contact and Poisoning in Barbados Slaves: Historical, Chemical, and Biological Evidence.” Social Science History 10: 399-425. Lead contact and lead poisoning have received scant attention in discussions of … Continue reading →

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Weaning among West Indian Slaves: Historical and Bioanthropological Evidence from Barbados

Posted on 1986 by Jerome Handler

1986 (J. S. Handler and R. S. Corruccini) “Weaning among West Indian Slaves: Historical and Bioanthropological Evidence from Barbados.” William and Mary Quarterly 43: 111-17. This article demonstrates how documentary and physical evidence can be brought to bear in shedding … Continue reading →

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Chronological Distribution of Enamel Hypoplasias and Weaning in a Caribbean Slave Population

Posted on 1985 by Jerome Handler

1985 (R. S. Corruccini, J. S. Handler, and K. Jacobi) “Chronological Distribution of Enamel Hypoplasias and Weaning in a Caribbean Slave Population.” Human Biology 57: 699-711. Dental enamel hypoplasia is a putative marker of childhood morbidity (nutritional or infectious stress) … Continue reading →

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Slave Manumissions and Freedmen in Seventeenth-Century Barbados

Posted on 1984 by Jerome Handler

1984 (J. S. Handler and J. Pohlmann) “Slave Manumissions and Freedmen in Seventeenth-Century Barbados.” William and Mary Quarterly 41: 390-408. This article focuses on the manumission process and the characteristics of manumitted slaves from 1650 to 1700. The discussion treats … Continue reading →

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Freedmen and Slaves in the Barbados Militia

Posted on 1984 by Jerome Handler

1984 (Jerome S. Handler) “Freedmen and Slaves in the Barbados Militia.” Journal of Caribbean History 19: 1-25. In this paper, I focus on a little treated subject in Caribbean history, the position of non-whites, particularly the recruitment and arming of … Continue reading →

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Plantation Slave Life in Barbados: A Physical Anthropological Analysis

Posted on 1983 by Jerome Handler

1983 (J. S. Handler and R. S. Corruccini) “Plantation Slave Life in Barbados: A Physical Anthropological Analysis.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 14: 65-90 In this paper we utilize physical anthropological data, recovered archaeologically from a plantation slave cemetery in Barbados, … Continue reading →

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Osteology of a Slave Burial Population From Barbados, West lndies

Posted on 1982 by Jerome Handler

1982 (R. S. Corruccini, J. S. Handler, R. Mutaw, and F. W. Lange) “Osteology of a Slave Burial Population From Barbados, West lndies.” AJPA 59: 443-59 A unique seventeenth-nineteenth century slave cemetery population from Newton plantation, Barbados, allows examination of … Continue reading →

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Slave revolts and conspiracies in seventeenth-century Barbados

Posted on 1982 by Jerome Handler

1982 (Jerome Handler) “Slave revolts and conspiracies in seventeenth-century Barbados.” Nieuwe West-Indische Gids–New West Indian Guide 56: 5-43. The main purpose of this paper is to document and describe the major forms and incidents of collective slave resistance, or group … Continue reading →

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Tooth Mutilation in the Caribbean: Evidence from a Slave Burial Population in Barbados

Posted on 1982 by Jerome Handler

1982 (J. S. Handler, R. S. Corruccini, and R. Mutaw) “Tooth Mutilation in the Caribbean: Evidence from a Slave Burial Population in Barbados.” Journal of Human Evolution 11: 297-313. Dental mutilation on slave burials excavated from a sugar plantation cemetery … Continue reading →

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Joseph Rachell and Rachael Pringle-Polgreen: Petty Entrepreneurs

Posted on 1981 by Jerome Handler

1981 (Jerome S. Handler) “Joseph Rachell and Rachael Pringle-Polgreen: Petty Entrepreneurs.” In G.Nash and D. Sweet, eds., Struggle and Survival in Colonial America (University of California Press), pp. 376-91. In addition to its large enslaved population, Barbados contained a minority … Continue reading →

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