Plantation Slavery in Barbados: An Archaeological and Historical Investigation

Jerome S. Handler; Frederick W. Lange

Published by Harvard University Press 1978

Plantation Slavery in Barbados

An Archaeological and Historical Investigation

Jerome S. Handler and Frederick W. Lange
In collaboration with: Robert V. Riordan

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674332362

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Here is the first detailed investigation of plantation slave life in Barbados from earliest times until 1838. The authors have visited slave village sites, and their intensive excavation of a slave cemetery has yielded a wealth of material pertaining to mortuary practices and other dimensions of social and material life. Handler and Lange have also examined and extensively integrated the written records to amplify and cross-check their findings.

Based on the methodologies of archaeology, history, and ethnography, Plantation Slavery in Barbados explores new ways to reconstruct the culture of a social group that left few historical records. As a description of the organization and development of the plantation system in Barbados, it is a model work in the burgeoning fields of slavery studies, historical anthropology, and Caribbean history.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
FIGURES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	x
TABLES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xii
1. INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. BARBADOS: GEOGRAPHY, ECONOMY, DEMOGRAPHY, AND HISTORY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
3. THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT: METHODOLOGY AND SURVEY SUMMARY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
4. NEWTON PLANTATION: HISTORY AND THE SLAVE POPULATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
5. NEWTON PLANTATION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
6. THE MORTUARY PATTERNS OF PLANTATION SLAVES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
7. THE ETHNOHISTORICAL APPROACH TO SLAVERY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
APPENDIX A. EXCAVATION SUMMARY: NEWTON CEMETERY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
APPENDIX Β. CLAY PIPES FROM NEWTON PLANTATION EXCAVATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
APPENDIX C. CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BEADS FROM NEWTON CEMETERY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
APPENDIX D. A COMPARISON OF THE HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL POPULATIONS AT NEWTON PLANTATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
REFERENCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	322
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	360

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1978
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 368
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 38
- Tables: 26
- Other: illustrated
Keywords: HISTORY / Latin America / General; Slavery -- Barbados -- History.; Plantation life -- Barbados -- History.; Barbados -- Antiquities.

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674332362

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1978
ISBN: 9780674332355