1978, 1979 (D. Gobert and J. S. Handler), Barbados in the Post-Apprenticeship Period: The Observations of a French Naval Officer. Part I, Part II. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. Vol. 35: 243-66; Vol. 36:4-15.
In 1840, the French government appointed a royal commission to study the mechanics of abolishing slavery and the possible socioeconomic consequences of emancipation in its colonies. The commission was headed by Capitaine de Corvette Layrle, who visited Barbados in the early 1840s.
Barbados in the Post-Apprenticeship Period: The Observations of a French Naval Officer, Part I
Barbados in the Post-Apprenticeship Period: The Observations of a French Naval Officer, Part II