Category Archives: Barbados History and Society: Bibliographic and Miscellany

2006, 2007  Bibliographic Addenda to Guides for the Study of Barbados History, 1971 & 1991: Installment One, Installment Two. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. Vol 52: 35-53; Vol 53: 199-211. Published and some manuscript materials that have come … Continue reading →

2006   (F. Brady and J. Handler), Jonathan Corncob Visits Barbados: Excerpts from a Little-Known 18th Century Novel.  Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 52:17-34. Published in 1787, this obscure satirical novel written by an author who to … Continue reading →

2005  A Rare Eighteenth-Century Tract in Defense of Slavery in Barbados: The Thoughts of the Rev. John Duke, Curate of St. Michael.  Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 51:58-65. In this article I summarize the contents and argument … Continue reading →

1994    (J. R. Rickford and J. S. Handler), Textual Evidence on the Nature of Early Barbadian Speech, 1676-1835. Jl. of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9: 221-55 On the evidence of textual attestations from 1676-1835, early Barbadian English is shown to have … Continue reading →

1969 Review of English Rustics in Black Skin: A Study of Modern Family Forms in a Pre-lndustrialized Society. Sidney M. Greenfield. New Haven: College and University Press, American Anthropologist 71:335-337. This review argues against the basic cultural historical premises developed … Continue reading →