Jerome S. Handler

1983    An African Pipe from a Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies. In P.Davey, ed., The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe: America. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 175: 245-54.

A detailed description of a rare (for British America) clay pipe excavated in the early 1970s; probably dating to the late 17th century and originating on the Gold Coast (Ghana) of West Africa. Also, comments on tobacco consumption and pipe smoking among the enslaved in Barbados.

1972    An Archaeological Investigation of the Domestic Life of Plantation Slaves in Barbados. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc.34: 64-72.

A modified version of a talk given at the University of the West Indies in Barbados in early 1972. Gives an overview of the domestic life of plantation slaves and raises issues it is hoped on-going archaeological research will address. This talk was given in the earliest phases of the archaeological research in Barbados which eventuated in the book, co-authored with Frederick W. Lange, Plantation Slavery in Barbados: An Archaeological and Historical Investigation (Harvard University Press, 1978). Purchase on iUniverse.

An Archaeological Investigation of the Domestic Life of Plantation Slaves in Barbados