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Custom and law: The status of enslaved Africans in seventeenth-century Barbados

Posted on 2016 by hopenorman

2016 (Jerome S. Handler) “Custom and law: The status of enslaved Africans in seventeenth-century Barbados.” Slavery & Abolition 37: 233-255. The island of Barbados provides an ideal case study to explore the beginnings of slavery and definitions of slave status … Continue reading →

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Father Antoine Biet’s Account Revisited: Irish Catholics in Mid-Seventeenth Century Barbados

Posted on 2015 by hopenorman

2015 (J. S. Handler & M. C. Reilly) “Father Antoine Biet’s Account Revisited: Irish Catholics in Mid-Seventeenth Century Barbados.” In A. Donnell, M. McGarrity, and E. O’Callaghan, eds., Caribbean Irish Connections (University of the West Indies Press, Mona, Jamaica), pp. … Continue reading →

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Production Activities in the Household Economies of Plantation Slaves: Barbados and Martinique, Mid-1600s to Mid-1800s

Posted on 2014 by hopenorman

2014 (J. Handler & D. Wallman) “Production Activities in the Household Economies of Plantation Slaves: Barbados and Martinique, Mid-1600s to Mid-1800s.” International Journal of Historic Archaeology. 18 June 2014. Formerly British and French colonies, the eastern Caribbean islands of Barbados … Continue reading →

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Change in Small Scale Pottery Manufacture in Antigua, West Indies

Posted on 2009 by hopenorman

2009 (M. W. Hauser and J. Handler) “Change in Small Scale Pottery Manufacture in Antigua, West Indies.” African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. December. Today, in a handful of Caribbean islands (e.g., Jamaica, Martinique, Barbados, Antigua, Nevis, and St. Lucia), persons of … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 2009 by hopenorman

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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The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record

Posted on 2009 by hopenorman

2009 (J. S. Handler and M. Tuite) The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record. The approximately 1,235 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from … Continue reading →

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Bibliographic Addenda to Guides for the Study of Barbados History, 1971 & 1991

Posted on 2007 by hopenorman

2006, 2007 (Jerome S. Handler) “Bibliographic Addenda to Guides for the Study of Barbados History, 1971 & 1991: Installment One, Installment Two.” JBMHS 52: 35-53 and 53: 199-211. Published and some manuscript materials that have come to my attention since the … Continue reading →

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Retouching History: The Modern Falsification of a Civil War Photograph

Posted on 2007 by hopenorman

2007 (J. S. Handler and M. L. Tuite) “Retouching History: The Modern Falsification of a Civil War Photograph (2007).” This website discusses a Civil War-era posed studio photograph of unidentified black Union soldiers with a white officer. This photograph was … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Corncob Visits Barbados: Excerpts from a Little-Known 18th Century Novel

Posted on 2006 by hopenorman

2006 (F. Brady and J. Handler) “Jonathan Corncob Visits Barbados: Excerpts from a Little-Known 18th Century Novel.”  JBMHS 52: 17-34. Published in 1787, this obscure satirical novel written by an author who to this day remains anonymous treats the adventures … Continue reading →

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Problematical Glass Artifacts from Newton Plantation Slave Cemetery, Barbados

Posted on 1998 by hopenorman

1998 (Jerome S. Handler) “Problematical Glass Artifacts from Newton Plantation Slave Cemetery, Barbados.” African American Archaeology 20: 1, 5-6. This paper discusses two virtually identical small translucent glass objects of apparent European manufacture that were found associated with two different … Continue reading →

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