Jerome S. Handler

1980    (F. W. Lange and J. S. Handler), The Archaeology of Mapp’s Cave: A Contribution to the Prehistory of Barbados. Jl. of theVirgin Islands Archaeological Society 9: 3-l7.

We report on the limited prehistoric data recovered from a cave in southern Barbados in the early 1970s, and place these data within the context of what is known about Barbadian prehistory.

1977    Amerindians and Their Contributions to Barbadian Life in the Seventeenth Century. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 35:189-210.

This paper sketches what can be ascertained from limited documentary information about the way of life of Barbados’s small Amerindian population during the seventeenth century, and suggest the kinds of contributions Amerindians may have made to the island’s early material life.

1970    Aspects of Amerindian Ethnography in 17th Century Barbados. Caribbean Studies 9: 50-72.

An ethnohistorical study of the island’s small enslaved Amerindian population, focussing on material life and its possible influence on persons of European and African birth or descent.

1969    The Amerindian Slave Population in Barbados in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries. Caribbean Studies 8: 38-64.

Shortly after Barbados was colonized in 1627, a small group of Amerindians from Guiana was brought to the island to teach the English colonists how to cultivate tropical crops. These Indians came voluntarily and as freemen, but shortly after arrival they were enslaved. In the ensuing years of the 17th century other Amerindians, from several New World areas, intermittently came to the island, but as slaves. Amerindians always formed a very insignificant minority of Barbados’ population and by the end of the first few decades o£ the 18th century there are few traces of their existence. This paper chronicles their story and examines their legal and social position on the island.