Jerome S. Handler

1963 (Jerome Handler) “Pottery Making in Rural Barbados.” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 19: 314-34.

This paper describes some of the more salient technological, economic, and sociological factors surrounding the production of pottery as these existed in the early 1960s, when field work in Barbados was conducted.

1963 (Jerome S. Handler) “A Historical Sketch of Pottery Manufacture in Barbados.” JBMHS 30: 129-53.

Traces the roots of the island’s pottery industry within the context of the needs of early sugar manufacturing and the kinds of vessels that were produced to meet these needs. Discusses the influence of England on this industry and the role of enslaved potters; also what can be said about the beginnings of the domestic pottery produced in the village of Chalky Mount during the slave and post-slavery periods.