Category Archives: Early Foreign Travel Accounts of Barbados

1980    (D. Gobert and J. S. Handler), Barbados in the Apprenticeship Period: The Report of a French Colonial Official. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 36: 108-28 The French government sent observers to the British West Indies to … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

1975    Memoirs of an Old Army Officer: Richard A. Wyvill’s Visits to Barbados in 1796 and 1806-7. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc.35: 21-30. Wyvill was a British Army Officer in the West India Regiments. His diary entries … Continue reading →

1970    (A. Gunkel and J. S. Handler), A German Indentured Servant in Barbados in 1652: The Account of Heinrich von Uchteritz. Jl.of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 33: 91-100 Cromwell  shipped considerable numbers of his political and military enemies … Continue reading →

1969    (A. Gunkel and J. S. Handler ), A Swiss Medical Doctor’s Description of Barbados in 1661. The Account of Christian Spoeri. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 33: 3-13. A German-speaking Swiss physician and surgeon, Spoeri visited … Continue reading →

1967    Father Antoine Biet’s Visit to Barbados in 1654. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc.32: 56-76. In 1651, a French company obtained its government’s permission to re-establish a colony in Cayenne . Between 500-600 persons were recruited for … Continue reading →