Category Archives: Atlantic Slavery and the Slave Trade

2010 (Jerome Handler), The Old Plantation Painting at Colonial Williamsburg: New Findings and Some Observations. African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. December. Arguably the best known visual depiction of African American life during the eighteenth century, this small watercolor, owned by the … Continue reading →

2009  The Middle Passage and the Material Culture of Captive Africans.  Slavery and Abolition 30: 1-26. Scholars of the Atlantic slave trade have not systematically addressed the question of what material objects or personal belongings captive Africans took aboard the … Continue reading →

2009  (J.S. Handler and K. E. Hayes), Escrava Anastácia: The Iconographic History of a Brazilian Popular Saint.  African Diaspora: Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global World 2: 1-27. This article describes the transformation of an image depicting an unnamed, … Continue reading →

2009 (J.S. Handler and M. Tuite)  The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record. The approximately 1,235 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from … Continue reading →

2008  Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Smoking Pipes, Tobacco, and the Middle Passage.  African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. June. This paper briefly addresses tobacco consumption and pipe smoking in Western Africa, and the relevance of these practices to the Atlantic … Continue reading →

2006     (J. S. Handler and A. Steiner), Identifying pictorial images of Atlantic slavery: Three case studies.   Slavery & Abolition 27: 49-69. During the last several decades, the number of publications on New World slavery and the Atlantic slave trade … Continue reading →

2002    Survivors of the Middle Passage: Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in British America. Slavery & Abolition 23:25-56. This paper describes fifteen autobiographical accounts by Africans who survived the physical and psychic hardships of the transatlantic crossing and passed a … Continue reading →

1998    Life Histories of Enslaved Africans in Barbados. Slavery & Abolition 19:129-41. Scholars of New World slavery and the transatlantic slave trade are well aware that there are very few first-hand accounts by enslaved Africans of their experiences prior to … Continue reading →